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Re: Snort exploits

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Thu Apr 18 21:28:13 2002

Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:14:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
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> Tiny frags do happen, but I've rarely see them outside of live
> attacks.  Then again, I don't hang on .edu networks very much... ;)

I was, until very recently (<24hrs ago), behind a link with MTU 1400.
I regularly saw tiny fragments; they happened whenever anyone who
wasn't trying to do PMTU-D tried to talk to me.

Just for what it may be worth.

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