Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ipv4: add forwarding_uses_pmtu knob to protect forward path to use pmtu info
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hidden>
Date: 2014-01-05 10:41:11
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hidden>
Date: 2014-01-05 10:41:11
Hi David! On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:20:44PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
The only thing left are things like AH and ESP, which also perform some level of validation making sure that some state exists. And frankly for non-tunneled IPSEC this PMTU information is absolutely essential.
I am trying to finish the testing of these patches with ipsec. What do you mean here by non-tunneled IPSEC? Transport mode is not an issue with this patch as we don't push packets for transport mode through forwarding. Tunneled mode would invoke fragmentation again. It is always ensured that mtu in ip_forward is higher than when xfrm layer checks with dst_mtu, so nothing should break here. Thank you, Hannes