Re[3]: [RFC] netfilter: xt_TEE: IPv4 Don't Fragmet options

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>On Friday 2012-06-15 08:37, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>Applications often don't have the means to set DF, think SOCK_STREAM.
>>
>>Yeah I do, and TCP usually set the DF bit and if you inherit that it should
>>not be a problem. BTW, I don't see any real use case for TCP except for a
>>"remote" tcpdump
>
>Remote dumping is the point of TEE. At least that is what people
>have blogged about so far :)
>
>>Inherit - don't force, it's a better idea
>>if you don't set it you don't expect an ICMP either.
>
>So what does syslogd do in the IPv6-UDP case?

As I wrote in my first mail IPv6 is a different story, you don't have any options there
since you are not allowed to "re-frag" the packet

>>>As Pablo mentioned, you cannot touch this structure.
>>
>>I know this was just a RFC,  I  should have made a note about that :-)
>
>Then I'll await your new patch.

To make things clear :
I'll send a patch that keep the current behaviour, so it doesn't break things for people.


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