If and only if you're using your Linux box purely as a router you
don't want the extra overhead of storing frag'ged packets and
assembling them -- the end system is going to do that anyway. The
option isn't much use in other situations.
Regards,
-- Raju
BTW, seriously OT, but this question has plagued me for a long time:
how exactly do you pronounce your name? Can you put up a .au
somewhere? No offence meant, but it's not a common name AFAIK.
>>>>> "sreangsu" == sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sreangsu> Hi, dmesg has a line ..."setting always_defrag = 0" (
sreangsu> loosely quoted). I couldnt find that on /proc/net/
sreangsu> somewhere. Trembling all over, I managed to open the
sreangsu> kernel source, from where it seems this enables packet
sreangsu> re-assembly. Is that what it is, but shouldnt this be
sreangsu> pretty much default, why would one want to receive *un*
sreangsu> assembled packets
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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