On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote:

<lots of snip-Snip>

> So far as I can tell "DF" can't be set directly by an application.

Well, why not?  There's at least one "application" I know of that _does_
set the DF bit:  GateD.  If GateD can set the bit, any other application
could also set it.  (I haven't looked at the source, so I don't know
_how_ it gets set, but I've seen the results in a tcpdump...)


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