netdev - Re: Kernel sends ICMP unreachable for GRE packets even if there is a listening socket

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:16:25 +0100
From:	"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@...foot.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel sends ICMP unreachable for GRE packets even if there is a
 listening socket

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:09:56AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Can this be suppressed when I have such a socket giong? ip6tables -A OUTPUT can
>> stop them, but it seems very hacky and kludgy.
> Thats because you loaded ip6_gre maybe ?

I have loaded ip6_gre, yes. But I might need the kernel variant for other
tunnels, so unloading it is a suboptimal workaround.

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