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Date:      Tue, 6 May 1997 15:14:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Cc:        zbs@softec.sk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: divert still broken?
Message-ID:  <199705062214.PAA20349@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705062153.OAA13640@gatekeeper.whistle.com> from Darren Reed at "May 7, 97 07:51:30 am"

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> So long as the packet is a fragment, is at offset 0, then for UDP, it is
> either not going to have any header data (ip_len == ip_hl << 2) or it
> will have at least both ports (first 4 bytes of the header) - well it
> should as fragmenting of data is done on 8 byte boundaries.

Should the firewall then always & automatically reject any packet
that doesn't have length a multiple of eight?

This would be a pretty significant change.. is fragmentation
*required* to be on multiples of eight?

-Archie

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