cvs commit: src/sys/net if_bridge.c

Darren Reed darrenr at hub.freebsd.org
Wed Oct 25 17:53:02 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:37:25AM +0000, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> thompsa     2006-04-29 05:37:25 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/net              if_bridge.c 
>   Log:
>   Add support for fragmenting ipv4 packets.
>   
>   The packet filter may reassemble the ip fragments and return a packet that is
>   larger than the MTU of the sending interface. There is no check for DF or icmp
>   replies as we can only get a large packet to fragment by reassembling a
>   previous fragment, and this only happens after a call to pfil(9).

I'm a long time in catching up with this change, but architecturally,
this change is very very wrong.

A bridge should have _no_ part in fragmenting up an IP packet
regardless of what options are set (or not set) in an IP header.

Darren


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