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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: edward.allcutt@openmarket.com
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: icmp: Fix pMTU handling for rare case
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:48:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140630.234843.985671994258957329.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1404141362-21015-1-git-send-email-edward.allcutt@openmarket.com>

From: Edward Allcutt <edward.allcutt@openmarket.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:16:02 +0100

> This is explicitly described as an eventuality that hosts must deal
> with by the standard (RFC 1191) since older standards specified that
> those bits must be zero.
 ...
> One example I have seen is an OpenBSD router terminating IPSec
> tunnels.

Why doesn't OpenBSD implement RFC 1191?

That's a nearly 24 year old standard.

I really don't want to allow for zero values.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-01  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-30 15:16 [PATCH] ipv4: icmp: Fix pMTU handling for rare case Edward Allcutt
2014-07-01  6:48 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-07-01  8:42   ` Edward Allcutt
2014-07-01 18:05     ` David Miller
2014-07-01 18:50       ` Edward Allcutt
2014-07-01 19:07         ` David Miller
2014-07-01 19:38           ` Edward Allcutt
2014-07-02  9:05       ` Edward Allcutt
2014-07-02 19:14         ` David Miller
2014-07-08  0:23 ` David Miller

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