On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:28:18AM +1000, Russell Kliese wrote: > Is there a way to obtain the same functionality of the IP: > always_defragment kernel config option available in pre 2.4 kernels? > I've seen mention of a netfilter module called forward-fragment but > have so far been unable to obtain any more information about it.
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/netfilter/1999-December/002922.html > > Any help in providing a method to enable packet defragmentation for > forwarded packets would be appreciated. May I ask why you need this functionality? If the linux box is the ultimate destination then it does the defragmentation automatically and if it's not (I think) it's against the RFC recommendation to defragment. Another point is if you apply NAT, the nat box does the reassembly. Ramin > > Russell >
