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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Brockhoven, Werner wrote:
> The ipchains howto says that in order for masquerading to work you
> have to issue echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag,
> which I do in my firewall script.
>
> For every new masqed connection this parameter is incremented with
> 1. If the masqed connection is closed/timed out , this value is
> decremented with 1.
Huh?
While I haven't looked at 2.2.18 in any detail yet, it seems really
unlikely to me that the defragmentation code would be hooked into the
masquerade code in this manner.
Can anybody confirm this behaviour? Has anybody else seen it on
earlier 2.2.x kernels?
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