netdev - Re: problem forwarding IP fragments with DF bit set (caused by ipv4: fix path MTU discovery with connection tracking)

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:34:51 +0200
From:	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: problem forwarding IP fragments with DF bit set (caused by
 ipv4: fix path MTU discovery with connection tracking)


On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 08:37 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Hmm... maybe its finally time to rename local_df to ignore_df, as
> Maze suggested some time ago ...

It would have indeed helped me to understand the purpose of this flag at
first glance.

About the patch I sent, I'm not well equipped to test mainline kernels
wrt the bug I reported (it does not boot on my embedded device), so I'd
prefer someone else to cook the patch and actually test it.

Thanks,

-- 
Maxime


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