From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gdt@gdt.id.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DF Bit set on UDP traffic -- bug or feature?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:16:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090819.211631.197791532.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8C8945.70602@gdt.id.au>
From: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:22:45 +1000
> Can I humbly suggest that when the kernel does not implement
> its own fragmentation strategy (as it does with TCP Path MTU
> Discovery) that the DF bit not be set by the kernel?
It's UDP path MTU discovery, it's legal, and Linux has been
doing it for almost 10 years.
I don't think it's changing, sorry.
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2009-08-19 23:22 DF Bit set on UDP traffic -- bug or feature? Glen Turner
2009-08-20 4:16 ` David Miller [this message]
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