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Re: Netfilter & Fragments



On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:39:29PM +1100, Jean-Francois Dive wrote:
> > I'm not sure if UDP can be fragmented, but if so, I think this second
> > ruleset would detect them anyway.
> 
> virtually anything which runs on top of IP may be fragmented.. fragmentation
> is done at the ip layer. Expl on UDP fragments: nfs

Do you actually need to care about fragments though?  I was under the
impression that any sort of reasonable TCP/IP stack would not have any
problems with packet fragmentation.

-rob

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