linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking

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Message-Id: <20081201.014101.33453764.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:41:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ossthema@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tklein@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com, jb.billaud@...il.com,
	hering2@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking

From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:58:55 +0100

> This patch prevents that ip fragmented TCP packets are considered vaild
> for aggregation

We discussed this last week.

The things feeding packets into the LRO machinery should make this
check, and that could be a hardware LRO assist.
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