netdev - Re: IPSec freeze

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:17:53 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Beschorner Daniel <Daniel.Beschorner@...ton.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPSec freeze

Beschorner Daniel wrote:
>>>>Today a new site joined our Linux IPSec VPN, now all the 
>>>
>>>other routers
>>>
>>>>(all 2.6.22) freeze hard reproducible.
> 
> 
> The problem is more general und ugly than I thought.
> 
> I took 2 arbitrary boxes, one behind an Ethernet (A, Kernel 2.6.21, MTU
> 1500), one behind ADSL (B, 2.4.x, 1492).
> Established a tunnel, copied a file from site A to B through the tunnel
> and router A died in the same moment.
> 
> Out of my feeling this worked fine some kernel releases earlier.
> 
> As written in this thread before, I see an external need-to-frag-ICMP,
> no tunnel need-to-frag will be thrown, box freezes.
> 
> You should be able to reproduce it with any network path with a smaller
> MTU?!?

I'm running IPsec in the same setup as you describe above without
problems. I'm probably not seeing ICMP frag requireds on the wire
though since I believe the entire path is >= 1492.

Could you try to find out whether those are responsible?
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