On 9. Jun 2012, at 08:12 , [email protected] wrote:

> There's a sentence at the end of the "Fragment Handling" section of the 
> pf.conf man page:
> 
> "Currently, only IPv4 fragments are supported and IPv6 fragments are blocked 
> unconditionally."
> 
> This is in pf.conf(5) for FreeBSD versions using pf 4.1.  It looks like we 
> only have pf 4.5 in HEAD and I believe support for IPv6 fragments didn't 
> arrive until OpenBSD 5.0 (after the pf.conf format change).
> 
> Is IPv6 fragmentation support still an issue?  I'm chasing down PMTU issues 
> and came across this.  If it's the case, it would explain a lot of the 
> problems I'm having with UDP over IPv6.

Yes, it's not there yet;  someone needs to cherry pick the commits and bring it 
over.  Glebius can you do that?

You can however unconditionally allow all fragments and trust a (bad) end host 
system:

pass log quick inet6 proto ipv6-frag all

(it has log set for a reason to be able to track them here)

/bz

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
   It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do!

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