Re: IPSEC transport mode w/2.2.x kernels and large packets

Richard Guy Briggs (rgb@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca)
Sat, 7 Aug 1999 12:22:44 -0400 (EDT)


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> On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 02:03:19PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Hmm. mss routing table attribute is only used by local TCP connections.
> >
> > Which is the point we care about. Transport mode. Im not quite sure why
> > you are worried about tunnels - tunnels work, they always have
>
> Apparently they do not. Wasn't this why this thread has started ?

The thread was started partly because oversize packets were being
dropped entirely in transport mode on both kernel series and
ip_fragmentation in tunnel and transport mode was causing crashes on
2.2.x kernels.

> Local transport mode doesn't need ICMP, the error queue (will) work fine.

Yes.

> -Andi

slainte mhath, RGB
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