I agree, but this is still better than crashing the machine...

Aron 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Renzmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:33 PM
To: Aron Brand
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LARTC] RE: LARTC digest, Vol 1 #1558 - 9 msgs

Hi.

Aron Brand wrote:
> does this. Another option would be to trick the kernel that the packet

> has been transmitted, to prevent the immediate retries, while actually

> vanishing the packet.

I'm also no pro in this area, but I think this would be a bad idea. I
guess this would have impact on the interface's statistics about sent,
received and dropped packets, making it hard to look for network
configuration errors and similar things.

Bye, Mike


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