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SubjectRe: XFRM / DF Flag / Fragmentation Needed
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Thomas DuBuisson <dubu0874@uidaho.edu> wrote:
>
> After A establishes an SSH connection with C and tries to transfer the
> patches the size of a packet from A destined for C is quickly reaches 1500
> while the MTU
> to A is ~1400. At this point A sends an ICMP 'Fragmentation Needed'
> packet to its self (see xfrm_output.c xfrm4_tunnel_check_size(...)). It
> seems this packet is never acted on - it just disappears into the
> loopback interface. The proper mtu trial/error process never takes
> place.

There is a known problem in xfrm4_tunnel_check_size if your underlying
path MTU is a multiple of 8. So if your path MTU is 1480, you'll need
to lower it to 1476 before it will work.

You can query the path MTU using "ip r g <remote-gateway>". If it
is a multiple of 8, you can change it by doing

ip r a <remote-gateway> ... mtu <current-mtu - 4>
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