public inbox for netdev@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: uweber@astaro•com
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Use 1280 as min MTU for ipv6 forwarding
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:59:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226.035947.242568281.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100226092752.GA5969@babylon>

From: Ulrich Weber <uweber@astaro•com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:27:52 +0100

> Clients will set their MTU to 1280 if they receive a
> ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG message with an MTU less than 1280.
> 
> To allow encapsulating of packets over a 1280 link
> we should always accept packets with a size of 1280
> for forwarding even if the path has a lower MTU and
> fragment the encapsulated packets afterwards.
> 
> In case a forwarded packet is not going to be encapsulated
> a ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG msg will still be send by ip6_fragment()
> with the correct MTU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <uweber@astaro•com>

Patch does not apply to net-next-2.6, icmpv6_send() no longer
takes the final 'dev' argument.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  9:27 [PATCH] ipv6: Use 1280 as min MTU for ipv6 forwarding Ulrich Weber
2010-02-26 11:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-02-26 12:32   ` [PATCH net-next] " Ulrich Weber
2010-02-26 12:34     ` David Miller

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100226.035947.242568281.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft$(echo .)net \
    --cc=netdev@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=uweber@astaro$(echo .)com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox