IP reassembly

Michael Tuexen Michael.Tuexen at lurchi.franken.de
Tue Sep 22 15:33:55 UTC 2020


> On 22. Sep 2020, at 14:40, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Is our IP reassembly facility supposed to handle incoming out-of-order fragments?
> For example, IPIP packet created with gif(4) interface is fragmented with two parts,
> and parts are delivered out of order, last fragment comes first.
I would expect it to work without any assumptions on the sequence of arrival
of the fragments.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> In fact, I see this results in broken reassembly.
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