Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP.

[hpj () one se (Henrik P Johnson)]

I was idly reading through Internetworking with TCP/IP yesterday when it hit me
what might be a possible denial of service attack on IP stacks. What would
happen if a host was bombarded with faked fragments of large IP packages. Would
the stack allocate more and more memory trying to reconstruct the packages or
do they operate with a fixed/max size limit on memory allocated for IP
defragmentation?

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