Red Hat Security - DF bit set

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DF bit set

Randy Brown

2005-08-19, 5:53 pm

We have a PERL script that sends us a report of all rejected packets on
our network. Recently the format of the rejected packet messages in
/var/log/messages changed affecting the display of the output in our
report. An addition field was added to the /var/log/messages field, DF.
This is indicating that the don't fragment bit is set. Maybe this has
always been set, but the log entries didn't report it.

Does anyone know if RHEL WS 3 reports this whereas RH 7.2 did not? Or,
is this something that turned on in RHEL that wasn't in RH 7.2.

Thank you,

Randy