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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:18:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, peter@haywire.dialix.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW and SCREEND
Message-ID:  <199508230718.AAA16049@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <199508222226.QAA11084@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Aug 22, 95 04:26:00 pm

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> 
> : Just throw away *every* fragment that has as its start byte a byte in
> : the TCP/IP header. (so smaller then 40)
> 
> That's the fix, but it isn't implemented yet in most Firewalls.

Actually, since all IP-nets SHALL transfer a minimum MTU of 576 (or 
thereabout), there is no reason to receive a fragment with an offset of less.

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Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?



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