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Date:      Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:26:18 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r280971 - in head: contrib/ipfilter/tools share/man/man4 sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet sys/netinet sys/netipsec sys/netpfil/pf
Message-ID:  <551DA5EA.1080908@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1504021939390.64391@fledge.watson.org>
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On 04/02/15 20:46, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>
>>>> Does somebody here know what happens in these two cases:
>>>>
>>>> If we are transmitting using TSO, will the network adapter increment
>>>> the IP ID field somehow? What happens if an outgoing IP packet
>>>> resulting from a TSO packet get fragmented by a router?
>>>
>>> Quite possibly -- this is presumably specified by the NIC vendor, but
>>> it would be good to do a bit of a survey and see what happens in
>>> practice.
>>>
>>>> In ip_fragment() when we create fragments we should increment the
>>>> ip_id value for each fragment?
>>
>> I'm asking because the code in FreeBSD, since the beginning probably,
>> just copies the IP header, and use the same IP ID for all the
>> fragments ! This just hit my mind after some recent work in this area.
>
> I honestly cannot believe you are proposing that.
>
> Please go read about how IP fragmentation works.  Having an identical IP
> ID in ip_fragment() is the point of the function!
>

Hi,

rwatson: You're right, the more fragment flag gets set there, I 
overlooked that bit. Sorry.

glebius: Given that you admit there is a small chance of an IP ID 
collision in the previous e-mails exchanged in this thread, why don't we 
have checks for that in ip_reass() when receiving fragmented IP packets? 
For example when ip->ip_off == 0 we know the TCP and/or UDP port numbers 
for TCP and UDP payloads and can check if a new fragment is starting 
before the previous one is completed. Then we would know if a collision 
has happened and could discard that packet. Not ideal, but better than 
data corruption.

--HPS





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