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. -- - mdz
