From: weidong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:39:35 -0400
> Hi, All
> When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics
> "ipFragFails",found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The
> criteria is RFC2011:
> RFC2011
> ipFragFails OBJECT-TYPE
> SYNTAX Counter32
> MAX-ACCESS read-only
> STATUS current
> DESCRIPTION
> "The number of IP datagrams that have been discarded because
> they needed to be fragmented at this entity but could not
> be, e.g., because their Don't Fragment flag was set."
> ::= { ip 18 }
>
> When I send big IP packet to a router with DF bit set to 1 which need to
> be fragmented, and router just sends an ICMP error message
> ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED but no increments for this counter(in the function
> ip_fragment).
>
> signed-off-by:Wei Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Patch applied, thank you very much.
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