Re: ip_always_defrag

[John Patton <patton66@home.com>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:29:36PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote:
> The command
> 
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag
> 
> returns an integer which seems to vary all the time.
> 
> I would like to set this (to 1) for security reasons, but seem to be
> unable to do so because of this.

I'm not sure about what ip_always_defrag is meant to return when
called like that (probably some info that is useful to the
developers), but you can set it in the following way:

    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag

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