netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] Route ICMPv6 errors with the flow when ECMP in use

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Message-Id: <20170824.182142.290308098201695789.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:21:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jkbs@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] Route ICMPv6 errors with the flow when
 ECMP in use

From: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:58:27 +0200

> This patch set is another take at making Path MTU Discovery work when
> server nodes are behind a router employing multipath routing in a
> load-balance or anycast setup (that is, when not every end-node can be
> reached by every path). The problem has been well described in RFC 7690
> [1], but in short - in such setups ICMPv6 PTB errors are not guaranteed
> to be routed back to the server node that sent a reply that exceeds path
> MTU.
 ...

Ok, looks not to bad.

Applied, thanks.