netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: use interface mtu for determining if packet-too-big should be send

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Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:52:38 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: use interface mtu for determining if packet-too-big should be send

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 04:42:56PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:01:24 +0100
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:49:42AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 09:09 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> >> > IPv6 forwarding path should also not depend on the path mtu values to
> >> > judge if a packet should get dropped and an ICMP PTB should be returned.
> >> > 
> >> > For the accompanying change in IPv4, have a look at "ipv4: introduce
> >> > ip_dst_mtu_secure and protect forwarding path against pmtu spoofing".
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> No commit sha1 (truncated to 12 digits) ?
> > 
> > The patch is not yet committed.
> 
> It's confusing to propose an ipv6 version of an ipv4 patch that hasn't
> been integrated yet, please don't do this.

Ok, I'll do next time, sorry. I saw you still consider the IPv4 one, so I'll
just wait and resubmit this one as soon as I have feedback.

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