I noticed a problem with PMTUD between two IPsec tunnel endpoints. When sending a packet larger than the PMTU with IP_DF from one tunnel endpoint to the other, xfrm4_output sends an ICMP frag. required with the IPsec MTU. Since the addresses match the tunnel endpoints, this updates the MTU for the XFRM route with the value that was calculated for the entire bundle, which in turn causes a decrease for the bundle, resulting in further ICMP frag. required messages until the minimum is reached.
For example with an IPsec tunnel 10.0.0.1 <-> 10.0.0.2: uml:~# ping 10.0.0.1 -M do -s 1500 -c 20 PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 1500(1528) bytes of data. >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1428) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1356) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1284) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1212) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1140) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1068) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 996) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 924) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 852) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 780) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 708) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 636) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 564) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 552) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 492) >From 10.0.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 492) ... I can't come up with a way to fix this, so I'm hoping someone else has an idea. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
