netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: introduce ip_dst_mtu_secure and protect forwarding path against pmtu spoofing

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Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:21:10 -0000
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	<johnwheffner@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: introduce ip_dst_mtu_secure and protect forwarding path against pmtu spoofing

> No end host should have rp_filter on.  It unnecessarily makes our
> routing lookups much more expensive for zero gain on an end host.  But
> people convinced the distributions that turning it on everywhere by
> default was a good idea and it stuck.

Yes I spent a long time trying to get asymmetric routing within a
subnet working [1]. I didn't expect anything on the ingress side
would discard the packets - especially with the 'host based' IP
address scheme that linux uses.

	David

[1] I wanted a netperf RR test to send on one interface and
receive on another so that I could see whether the additional
delays were on the tx or rx side.

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