On 3. Jan 2012, at 05:05 , Fernando Gont wrote:

> On 01/02/2012 07:48 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> You'd need to go to the origins most likely and get into touch with them,
>> ask them, work with them to identify things and see if you can find a
>> common denominator...
>> 
>> It might really be worth doing so; in case we are hunting misconfigurations
>> or bugs here and discussing the merits on how to handle other than drop;-)
> 
> Why should you drop in this case, when it's trivial to process these
> fragments safely, with no side effects??

Because a fragment header that's not needed a) heats the planet, b-z) does
all the things what that means.  The more we can force that not to happen
the better we are off.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
   It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do!
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