On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:35:30 -0800 (PST)
"David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:46:22 -0800
> 
> > Also, there a related IETF draft about ICMP that discusses an number of PMTU
> > related issues.
> > 
> >     http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-05.txt
> > which has generated lots of discussion on TCPM list, and so far looks ok.
> 
> That's the draft, section 7.2, that I was trying to implement in the
> first place that led to all of these discoveries. :-)
> 
> See:
> 
>   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113323051404022&w=2
> 
> and Gont's original netdev posting:
> 
>   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113057604305073&w=2
> 
> As mentioned, I was reluctant to implement this thing, but I kept
> it in my mail backlog and started on an implementation over the
> past week.
> 
> I think the most of the recommendations in the rest of the draft are
> sane, and we support them already.

yeah, often the problem with draft stuff is that it has the problem
statement; but the solution is FUBAR

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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