From: "Philip Prindeville" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:48:46 -0600
> From: Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> > > In the presence of firewalls which improperly block ICMP Unreachable > (including Fragmentation Required) messages, Path MTU Discovery is > prevented from working. > > A workaround is to handle IPv4 payloads opaquely, ignoring the DF bit--as > is done for other payloads like AppleTalk--and doing transparent > fragmentation and reassembly. > > Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> I think the feedback that this feature should be mutually exclusive to pmtudisc is valid and you should address that.
