Back from the holidays, I guess I'll begin the new year by answering the only item I was explicitly asked *not* to:
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dino Farinacci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 5:09 PM > To: Templin, Fred L > Cc: Routing Research Group list > Subject: Re: [RRG] Tunnel fragmentation/reassembly for RRG > map-and-encaps architectures ... > > reduce the memory required for reassembly buffers by > > actively discarding any reassemblies that appear to > > have no chance of completion. This assumes that any > > And how does the ETR determine there is no chance of completion? > Please don't answer. Recent Linux 2.6.x kernel versions do exactly this; pull a recent kernel distribution, edit net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c, and search for "ip_frag_too_far". (This was pointed out by Matt Mathis in an off-list discussion.) Thanks - Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dino -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
