netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: ipv6: move POSTROUTING invocation before fragmentation

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Message-ID: <4BB4743B.3080604@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:23:55 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
CC:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: ipv6: move POSTROUTING invocation before
 fragmentation

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Patrick McHardy notes: "We used to invoke IPv4 POST_ROUTING after
> fragmentation as well just to defragment the packets in conntrack
> immediately afterwards, but that got changed during the
> netfilter-ipsec integration. Ideally IPv6 would behave like IPv4."
> 
> This patch makes it so. Sending an oversized frame (e.g. `ping6
> -s64000 -c1 ::1`) will now show up in POSTROUTING as a single skb
> rather than multiple ones.

Looks good to me. I'll wait until next week in case anyone
else has comments on this patch.

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