On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:35:25PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:36, Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> > having to reallocate larger and larger buffers for each fragment that
> > comes in. IIRC, it used to confuse one or two grotty old embedded TCP/IP
> > stacks but that was years ago and I'd hope that everything today can
> > handle it.
>
> They seem to - its always been explicitly legal to do so. The major
> problem was older Cisco PIX

The only other example I've run into in practice was the Solaris kernel used
for booting a jumpstart installation.  I don't know if that has been fixed
or not, it was in the 2.6 (or maybe 7) days.

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 - mdz

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