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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:21:09 +0000
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To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 173444] [socket] [patch] IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU and TCP is broken
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Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to marka from comment #6)
> (In reply to Hiren Panchasara from comment #5)
> My test system died years ago but I believe that it still is a problem.
>=20
> It should be trivial to check.
>=20
> create a IPv6 TCP socket.
> set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU=3D1 using setsockopt
> connect to a data sink
> write 1400 bytes to the socket in a single operation
>=20
> Examine the packets sent with tcpdump.  There should be no fragmented
> packets being sent as TCP is supposed to take into account MTU
> information.

According to RFC3542 this is what the kernel should do - do IP fragmentatio=
n as
application requested.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3542#section-11.1

"If the packet is larger than the minimum MTU and this feature has been ena=
bled
the IP layer will fragment to the minimum MTU."

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