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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sctp/tcp: Question -- ICMPv4 length check (not) redundant?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:49:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48906362.2090902@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730.031935.61479223.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:09:55 -0400
> 
>> The IPv6 checks are much different.  The MUST requirement is to provide as much
>> data as possible upto IPv6 min mtu.  So, the IPv6 icmp code should probably look
>> to see if min(payload_len, min_mtu) is provided.
> 
> "Be liberal in what you accept..." -Jon Postel

Yeah, that check is really too strict.

> 
> Also, do you know any case where 576 bytes won't provide enough
> quoted packet bytes? :-)
> 

Yes, I've seen a case where a full 1280 was needed.  It involved a
very convoluted packet that had extension headers and then went
through 2 encapsulations.  This was an extreme test scenario and
not a real world example.

-vlad

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25 15:20 [RFC] sctp/tcp: Question -- ICMPv4 length check (not) redundant? Gerrit Renker
2008-07-26  2:15 ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-07-26  4:38   ` David Miller
2008-07-26  7:03     ` Gerrit Renker
2008-07-26  7:36       ` David Miller
2008-07-26  8:10         ` Gerrit Renker
2008-07-27  4:48         ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-27  4:51           ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-28 11:25             ` Gerrit Renker
2008-07-28 13:08               ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-28 13:14               ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-07-28 17:08                 ` Gerrit Renker
2008-07-28 17:27                   ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-07-28 17:44                     ` Gerrit Renker
2008-07-28 18:09                       ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-07-30 10:19                         ` David Miller
2008-07-30 12:49                           ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2008-07-29  1:56                     ` Herbert Xu

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