From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Simon Schneider <simon-schneider@gmx.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv4 / IPv6 over IPv4 IPsec tunnel: setting the DF bit
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:21:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140130142116.GD25336@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-bc5263ea-896d-4350-aa80-fd2895b54b3b-1391084710336@3capp-gmx-bs28>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:25:10PM +0100, Simon Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> for the scenarios
> - IPv4 over IPv4 IPsec tunnel
> - IPv6 over IPv4 IPsec tunnel
>
> I wonder how the DF bit of the outer (encrypted) packet is set.
>
> There are generally three options:
> - DF bit always 0
> - DF bit always 1
> - DF bit copied from inner packet
There is a pmtudisc knob on ip tunnel ... to force DF bit on outgoing packets,
but DF bit should get copied from inner packet up to tunnel header in every
case.
Greetings,
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-30 12:25 IPv4 / IPv6 over IPv4 IPsec tunnel: setting the DF bit Simon Schneider
2014-01-30 14:21 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2014-01-30 15:26 ` Aw: " Simon Schneider
2014-01-30 15:59 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-31 8:27 ` Aw: " Simon Schneider
2014-01-31 15:01 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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