> The reason I didn't suggest pointing at the Fragment Header is > because it would carry the same information that it would in a > correctly fragmented packet, namely M=1 and Fragment Offset=0 (the > signature of an initial fragment). The Payload Length field is what > indicates that the fragment is too short to contain all the > extension headers and the upper layer header; its value would have > to be different in a legitimate packet. Hence my suggestion to > point there.
or set the pointer field to 0? given that there really isn't an octet offset where an error has been detected. cheers, Ole
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