On Wednesday 16 Nov 2011 13:56:53 Michal Kubecek wrote:
> For every (first) IPv4 fragment received, a buffer of size
> IPV4_FRAG_IOB_SIZE (currently 1500 bytes) is allocated. Limiting the
> number of fragment buffers prevents memory exhaustion if too many
> fragments are received without being assembled (e.g. because of wrongly
> configured firewall).

IPv4 fragmentation reassembly was already fixed back in July:

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/13186b6

You are working on the obsolete and unmaintained gPXE codebase.  Please 
upgrade to iPXE, where many of the bugs in gPXE have already been fixed.

Michael
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