On 06/30/2017 07:47 PM, Sam wrote:
> Hi again.
> 
> Spent the last week getting my home network(s) online with IPv6. I think
> I'm on the finishing stretch. One last issue has popped up that I am not
> sure how to fix.
> 
> I'm running squid in transparent proxy mode via tproxy. Had it like that
> for years on ipv4.
> 
> I've pretty much just followed the guide at the bottom here:
> http://shorewall.org/Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html
> 
> I've attached a shorewall6 dump for good measure
> 
> Before I enabled the tproxy rules over ipv6 (and thus not using squid),
> all tests on this site passed: http://test-ipv6.com/
> 
> Once I got the tproxy rules enabled, one test started failing.
> 
> That was the "Test IPv6 large packet" test. Your browser basically
> fetches a url with 1600 characters in it. I shortened it and added it
> here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/y9vy2j3u
> 
> I can fetch that url fine without squid and tproxy. But once it is
> enabled, I can't. Looking at tcpdump, I see the request made goes out of
> my wan nic, what comes back is an icmp "packet too big" response. That
> icmp packet then flows back out (through shorewall) to the computer on
> the lan that made the request. I'm thinking since squid intercepted the
> HTTP request, that the icmp response should be going to squid. So I
> don't know if this is just an issue of iptable rules or something else
> at play here. Any thoughts? Googling for squid + mtu+ ipv6 + tproxy
> doesn't give me too many results other than someone with the same issue
> here (which never responds back with what the fix was):
> http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/TPROXY-Timeouts-on-Select-Websites-td4657073.html
> 
> 
> 
> I've not found any websites that are proxied that don't work. Only issue
> seems to be with the ipv6 test website. So perhaps I can ignore this...
> 

FWIW, my configuration also fails this test and I've noticed no problems.

-Tom
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