Default behaviour of IP Options processing

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Thu May 6 18:07:58 PDT 2004


[...]
> May I propose an default setting for IP options which allows for RR but
> restricts the packet size that will be acted upon and is rate limited like
> many of our ICMP replies to certain other events like closed ports etc?
> This would satisfy the RR tracers and make Jaques and me more happy than
> we are with the current situation.

Rate limit is OK.  Probably the packet size restrictions is OK too.
Do not think we need a special case for RR.

I hope you are not going to turn off ip fragmentation/reassembling by
default to make SO happy, aren't you?

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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