netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] IP_GRE: Fix IP-Identification.

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:42:31 -0800
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, jesse@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] IP_GRE: Fix IP-Identification.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 18:18 -0800, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>> Use ip_select_ident_more() to generate and account ids for all
>> segments that can be used for segments of a gso packet.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
>
> I am not sure it makes any sense to do that.
>
> Why is it needed ?
>

Without this patch GRE-GSO generates ip fragments with id 0,2,3,4...
for every GSO packet, which is not correct. This patch fixes it.
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