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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: mail@saschahlusiak.de
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	contact@saschahlusiak.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sit: handle ICMPv4 for tunnels with no remote
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:46:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2D4052.2010108@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090608161352.152078nqk5d89e8s@www.domaingo-webmail.de>

mail@saschahlusiak.de wrote:
> If iph.ttl == 0, it means that the ttl of the ipv4 package is inherited
> from the ipv6 package to be sent. In case the ipv4 ttl of the path
> expires, the ipv6 ttl would expire too. While the link does send a
> time_exceeded, I believe that the application should receive an ICMPv6
> time_exceeded as well, even if the package died right on the tunnel
> endpoint.

I have some patches that I wanted to post tommorrow, which will allow
to propagate errno values and queue congestion state of the underlying
device upwards from the hard_start_xmit() functions of virtual network
devices. With these patches, you can simply return -EHOSTUNREACH or
whatever is appropriate and it will be delivered to the application.

Would that help?


      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 14:02 [PATCH 1/3] sit: ipip6_err: ICMP_PORT_UNREACH is a possible event Sascha Hlusiak
2009-06-06 14:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] sit: handle ICMPv4 for tunnels with no remote Sascha Hlusiak
2009-06-06 14:02   ` [PATCH 3/3] sit: Translate ICMPv4 errors to ICMPv6, if possible Sascha Hlusiak
2009-06-08  9:40   ` [PATCH 2/3] sit: handle ICMPv4 for tunnels with no remote David Miller
2009-06-08 14:13     ` mail
2009-06-08 16:46       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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