[Bro-Dev] ipv6 fragment reassembling

[Robin Sommer]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 15:20 -0800, you wrote:

> Even with a "standard" way of handling overlaps the IDS has no way of 
> knowing if the monitored systems actually implement the standard 
> correctly.

Yeah, that's right. In particular given that this is a recent change.
What we could see is if overlapping fragements are rare enough that
it's worth alarming on.

Robin

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