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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:53:09 -0700
From:      "D. W. Piper" <dwplists@loop.com>
To:        <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Another question on IPFW Rule -1
Message-ID:  <039301c10fa1$c1e44b40$213cd3cf@loop.com>
References:  <200105181518.WAA12362@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> <046c01c0dfc0$833e7fc0$213cd3cf@loop.com> <03a401c10efb$dd2eda60$213cd3cf@loop.com> <20010717223940.A437@blossom.cjclark.org>

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Me:
> > Is it significant that it's always "Fragment = 184"?  (Is that the
> > number of the fragment, or if not what does it mean?)

From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
> It's the offset. The data in the fragment should be placed at an
> offset of 1472 bytes in the reassembled datagram. This is not a "bogus
> frag" as described in the manpage. I think it's probably a runt
> packet.

Thank you for the response.  Um... pardon my ignorance, but what do you
mean by "runt packet"?

Does what I've described suggest some kind of problem somewhere on our
network, or on the other end?  Or is it something that can be safely
ignored?

Thanks,

David




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