netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: dst_allfrag() not taken into account by TCP

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:01:45 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	tore@....no, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: dst_allfrag() not taken into account by TCP

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:59:06 +0100

> Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 15:43 +0100, Tore Anderson a écrit :
> 
>> Another way of solving it and avoiding the Fragmentation headers
>> altogether would be to allow the "route MTU" to drop below 1280 as a
>> result of Path MTU Discovery. I opened an enchancement bug report
>> requesting this:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42599
> 
> Please dont open bugzilla entries for this kind of stuff, since there is
> no bug in this case.

Plus, we really don't normally follow the bugzilla reports at all, and
as Eric states just report them here to the netdev list if you want
something looked into.

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