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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Brockhoven, Werner wrote:
> I'm the original poster of this 'problem' which was indeed caused
> by setting ip_always_defrag = 1 while it allready is > 1.
> > This looks incomplete to me. What I don't understand yet is how it
> > could be decremented all the way to zero...
> by setting ip_always_defragment to 1 when it's currently > 1 ?
Good point. That *would* screw up the code that's there now. Thanks
for pointing that out. This means that the correct fix is to ignore
the user setting it to a nonzero value if it's already a nonzero
value.
> i think these questions belong on the kernel mailing list where
> it's got a chance of being answered :)
That's one reason I'm cc'ing Alan Cox, thought that may not be the
best thing to do. (Sorry if it's unwelcome, Alan).
> maybe a good idea is to change the semantics of
> ip_always_defragment so that is it always either 0 or 1 by setting
> it to 1 when masquerading starts and it isn't already 1 and never
> decrementing it? then, only the administrator can turn it off, not
> the kernel. of course, the implementers might have had good
> reasons for doing what they did. you'd have to ask them.
I think we agree.
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