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Subject: Re: Sequence of IP fragment packets on the wire
From: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Hi,

thanks to anyone for making this clear. Replacing this particular
system is currently out of question but I will take it on with the
people from SonicWall (oops, now the name did slip, silly me...)
to get this fixed ASAP. 

	Regards
		Henning


On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:16, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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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