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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:12:56 +1000 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: IPsec PMTUD problem On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:09:20PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > > One possible solution is to not send MTU errors to ourselves since > > we it wouldn't give us any new information. We'd need to audit the > > users of icmp_send to make sure that there isn't a legitimate case > > where we'd want to do that. > > One such case is delivery of errors to sockets. We'd need to make > sure the errors are delivered some other way. Alternatively we can still send the ICMP error but avoid a PMTU update if we received it from ourselves. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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