netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: dst_allfrag() not taken into account by TCP

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:40:53 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tore Anderson <tore@....no>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: dst_allfrag() not taken into account by TCP

Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 16:14 +0100, Tore Anderson a écrit :

> No problem. Bottom line, I'd like a "min_pmtu" IPv6 sysctl or something
> similar that would allow me to configure it so that the kernel would 
> accept an arbitrary low PMTU being received in an ICMPv6 PTB. That 
> would prevent having to deal with the Fragmentation headers completely.

I agree, but first lets fix the bugs ;)

Once the allfrag feature works again, we can try to avoid it.



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