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On Monday 30 January 2006 22:44, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> [1]Summary of the problem:
> Kernel does not delete the space of the options which not allowed in 
> fragments.
> 
> [2]Full description of the problem:
> ip_options_fragment() just fill options which not allowed in fragments with 
> NOOPs, does not delete the space of the options, following patch has 
> corrected the problem. Refer to FreeBSD, the space of the options which not 
> allowed in fragments will be delete. If the space does not be deleted, the 
> network traffic will be increased.

But the result might have worse alignment for the following headers, so it 
could be a net loss.
I would say it's not worth the code complexity you added.

-Andi
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