From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Gont Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:52:35 -0300 Message-ID: <54BDDF13.9010007@si6networks.com> References: <1421357665-2804-1-git-send-email-hagen@jauu.net> <1421675722.32277.3.camel@stressinduktion.org> <20150119.145058.954790496532942109.davem@davemloft.net> <1421697951.13047.9.camel@stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa , David Miller , netdev , stable@vger.kernel.org To: Loganaden Velvindron , Hagen Paul Pfeifer Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, Loganaden, On 01/20/2015 01:02 AM, Loganaden Velvindron wrote: > > Last time I was inquiring about depracated atomic fragments, people > were concerned that there wasn't enough practical data to decide > whether to go forward or not. What kind of practical data? FWIW, seems to be good enough when it comes to reasons for deprecating them. Besides, please check Section 5.2 of -- my "connection" to kernel.org was vulnerable to such attack. > Would a sysctl with it turned on by default be a good option, until we > are 100% sure ? was adopted by the 6man wg last November. While the I-D is not ready an RFC, and there might be minor modifications, it seems that there's agreement in not generating atomic fragments. If you do want to have a sysctl for this, please make it default to "off". Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492