Re: Sequence of IP fragment packets on the wire

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
03 Oct 2002 13:16:10 +0100

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:51, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> This confuses at least one firewall appliance. As I understand it,

You should replace that appliance. Packets can get re-ordered by a
million different things on the wire not just by the fact Linux is
optimising the fragment processes.

> Is there a way to configure this? Maybe even connection specific?

No

Alan

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