UDP and fragmentation

[Casper H.S. Dik]

Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su> writes:

>Then what is Microsoft talking about?

Through the wrong orifice?

Clearly, middleware boxes can fail to forward
such packets and host based firewalls may discard 
such packets; but that would be wrong.

Unless you want to inspect the whole packet, a
firewall can safely forward the second and later
packets as dropping the first packet makes sure
it never gets reassembled.

Casper
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