netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix bug of update IPv4 PMTU when received ICMP Fragmentation Needed message

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Message-ID: <46638F2D.90608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:03:57 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix bug of update IPv4 PMTU when received ICMP Fragmentation
 Needed message


> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:39:21AM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
>   
>>> Huh? The test new_mtu >= old_mtu should only hold if the sending router
>>> is buggy which is what the hack is for.
>>>       
>> Note here old_mtu is not the real old mtu, is the received message's size:
>>  unsigned short old_mtu = ntohs(iph->tot_len);
>> So maybe the patch would like following.
>>     
>
> The size of the packet that caused the ICMP is what we want here.  That's
> why the router must be buggy.
>
>   
So I want to know how the route announce a MTU larger then 576, such as 
1280? RFC says ICMP error message return as much as we can without 
exceeding 576 bytes.
And ipv4 router alaways return as a packet size 576 because of this.
If MTU is greater then 576, HOST will used "mtu = guess_mtu(old_mtu)" to 
get a MTU. Method of send ICMP Fragmentation Needed message is 
difference from receive,
how can this resolve? Change the method of send ICMP Fragmentation 
Needed message? I do not think so, the  only think we  can  do is  to 
change  the method of receive ICMP message.
Do you agree this?

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