On 2005-01-25 at 10:54:36, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 10:35 am, David Ford wrote: > > PMTU bug -- or better said, bad firewall admin who blocks all ICMP. > > PMTU bug, sure -- but one that came late in RC2. Remember: same firewall > in both cases, but only RC2 breaks. The ICMP packet has landed in > the RC2 system, which ignores it. 2.6.10 handled it correctly... I > suspect one of the TCP cleanups borked this. > > My current workaround is "ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492" but that's not > something I'd expect to keep.
Indeed, I had to shuffle my machines around a bit to get a proof that something is broken, but now I can confirm the above with a connection to cvs.sourceforge.net: 192.168.59.10 is the 2.6.11-rc2 host, 192.168.59.1 is the (now pre-rc2) gateway with a PPPoE 1492 mtu/pmtu host. 59.10 does not run any firewall/packet filter. (almost full-fledged perfect three-way handshake) 08:05:43.046546 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21526, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 60) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: SWE [tcp sum ok] 933042757:933042757(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 2707027 0,nop,wscale 2> 08:05:43.249819 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 60) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: S [tcp sum ok] 2956308271:2956308271(0) ack 933042758 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 312382981 2707027,nop,wscale 0> 08:05:43.249881 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21528, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] ack 1 win 1460 <nop,nop,timestamp 2707230 312382981> (CVS protocol starts) 08:05:43.363697 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21530, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 116) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: P [tcp sum ok] 1:65(64) ack 1 win 1460 <nop,nop,timestamp 2707344 312382981> 08:05:43.568504 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 14633, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: . [tcp sum ok] ack 65 win 5792 <nop,nop,timestamp 312383013 2707344> 08:05:43.964094 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 14634, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 63) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: P [tcp sum ok] 1:12(11) ack 65 win 5792 <nop,nop,timestamp 312383053 2707344> 08:05:43.964121 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21532, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] ack 12 win 1460 <nop,nop,timestamp 2707945 312383053> 08:05:43.964258 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21534, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 440) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: P [tcp sum ok] 65:453(388) ack 12 win 1460 <nop,nop,timestamp 2707945 312383053> 08:05:44.184893 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 14635, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: . [tcp sum ok] ack 453 win 6432 <nop,nop,timestamp 312383075 2707945> 08:05:44.192050 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 14636, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 566) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: P [tcp sum ok] 12:526(514) ack 453 win 6432 <nop,nop,timestamp 312383075 2707945> 08:05:44.192274 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21536, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 65) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: P [tcp sum ok] 453:466(13) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2708174 312383075> 08:05:44.432709 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 14637, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: . [tcp sum ok] ack 466 win 6432 <nop,nop,timestamp 312383100 2708174> 08:05:44.893674 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21538, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 85) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: P [tcp sum ok] 466:499(33) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2708876 312383100> 08:05:45.094985 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 45, id 14638, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 52) 66.35.250.207.2401 > 192.168.59.10.29612: . [tcp sum ok] ack 499 win 6432 <nop,nop,timestamp 312383166 2708876> (first ethernet frame-sized segment is about to be sent) 08:05:45.264633 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21540, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 1500) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] 499:1947(1448) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2709247 312383166> 08:05:45.264694 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21542, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 1500) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] 1947:3395(1448) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2709247 312383166> (the PPPoE gateway notifies the host about the PMTU issue, one for each segment) 08:05:45.265330 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 128, id 17970, offset 0, flags [none], length: 576) 192.168.59.1 > 192.168.59.10: icmp 556: 66.35.250.207 unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1492) 08:05:45.265453 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 128, id 17971, offset 0, flags [none], length: 576) 192.168.59.1 > 192.168.59.10: icmp 556: 66.35.250.207 unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1492) (the source host sends the full frame again...?) 08:05:45.770331 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21544, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 1500) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] 499:1947(1448) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2709754 312383166> 08:05:45.770900 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 128, id 17972, offset 0, flags [none], length: 576) 192.168.59.1 > 192.168.59.10: icmp 556: 66.35.250.207 unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1492) (and looping goes on..) 08:05:46.783148 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21546, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 1500) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] 499:1947(1448) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2710768 312383166> 08:05:46.783752 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 128, id 17973, offset 0, flags [none], length: 576) 192.168.59.1 > 192.168.59.10: icmp 556: 66.35.250.207 unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1492) 08:05:48.808861 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21548, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 1500) 192.168.59.10.29612 > 66.35.250.207.2401: . [tcp sum ok] 499:1947(1448) ack 526 win 1728 <nop,nop,timestamp 2712796 312383166> 08:05:48.809882 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 128, id 17974, offset 0, flags [none], length: 576) 192.168.59.1 > 192.168.59.10: icmp 556: 66.35.250.207 unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1492) ... I don't have now a pre-rc2 host to try this on, but I regularly use sourceforge anoncvs to at least confess honestly that it did work :) -- Janos | romfs is at http://romfs.sourceforge.net/ | Don't talk about silence. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
