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Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RFC {get,set}socktopt SO_DONTFRAGMENT
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At Tue, 9 May 2006 20:18:48 -0300,
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:

> 	I was thinking of a blanket option that would cover anything
> a socket could have instead of having options inside "every" single
> place.
> 
> 	Of couse, IP_DONTFRAG applies very well in most situations.
> However, I don't think that SO_DONTFRAGMENT would be a replacement
> but rather a more "generic" option.
> 
> 	Well, I could just be missing something and saying something
> naive. :) So I apologize if I am missing something obvious.
> 

No apology necessary.  I think that a generic option would be too
misleading.  Those who want to say "Don't Fragment" usually are
specialists and we dont' want people accidentally pessimizing their
applications by setting this when they don't mean to.

Best,
George