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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [XFRM]: Improve MTU estimation
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:21:32 +0200
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Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:11:19PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>>Of course it gets hairier if you have ESP padding.  I'm not even sure
>>>if the current code gets that right.
>>
>>Unless I'm missing something, the padding caused by IP options
>>is always less than the worst case that can happen anyway
>>(max(block size, padlen)-1), so it can simply be ignored.
> 
> 
> Are you talking about the ESP padding case, or transport mode in
> general?

Transport mode in general.