netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: icmp6: add icmp_errors_use_inbound

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Date:   Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:55:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     code@...stallard.me.uk
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: icmp6: add icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr
 sysctl for IPv6

From: Tim Stallard <code@...stallard.me.uk>
Date: Wed,  1 Apr 2020 00:17:06 +0100

> In practice, this causes issues with IPv6 path MTU discovery in networks
> where unroutable linknets are used, and packets from these linknets are
> discarded by upstream providers' BCP38 filters, dropping all Packet
> Too Big errors. Traceroutes are also broken in this scenario.

But now traceroute6 is going to output confusing output by default
again in the scenerios described in the Fixes: commit.

Why don't we see if, explicitly, a source address was configured on
the route rather than us using a default saddr?  And in that case go
back to the old behavior.