From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] path mtu hardening patches Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:12:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20140113.141255.1630640968086469722.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140113212808.GJ6586@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, fweimer@redhat.com To: johnwheffner@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:38953 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751727AbaAMWM7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:12:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: John Heffner Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:50:38 -0500 > Perhaps I misunderstood your description of FreeBSD then. It seems > hard for me to believe that MTU discovery for UDP is broken by default > in FreeBSD. It was not as of a couple years ago... FreeBSD never implemented PMTU for anything other than TCP. In fact, outside of Linux and perhaps Solaris, very few networking stacks have implemented UDP PMTU.