netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/ipoib: fix GRO merge failure for IPoIB originated TCP streams

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Message-ID: <20120130085742.GA8262@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:57:42 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-rdma <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/ipoib: fix GRO merge failure for IPoIB
	originated TCP streams

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:53:03AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> If this is an attack, TCP will merge the frames anyway on the same
> socket.

Not if we have a MAC-level filter in place or VLANs.

Cheers,
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