From: "Philip Prindeville" <phil...@redfish-solutions.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:53:02 -0600
> From: Philip Prindeville <phil...@redfish-solutions.com> > > In the presence of firewalls which improperly block ICMP Unreachable > (including Fragmentation Required) messages, Path MTU Discovery is > prevented from working. > > A workaround is to handle IPv4 payloads opaquely, ignoring the DF bit--as > is done for other payloads like AppleTalk--and doing transparent > fragmentation and reassembly. > > Redux includes the enforcement of mutual exclusion between this feature > and Path MTU Discovery as suggested by Alexander Duyck. > > Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <phil...@redfish-solutions.com> Applied.
