From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Fri Mar 31 01:10:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2A1D23625 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DADEADEC for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v2V1AbFi082255 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:10:37 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 173444] [socket] [patch] IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU and TCP is broken Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:10:38 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: kern X-Bugzilla-Version: 8.3-STABLE X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Only Me X-Bugzilla-Who: ae@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Status: In Progress X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: Normal X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:10:38 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D173444 --- Comment #12 from Andrey V. Elsukov --- (In reply to marka from comment #10) > (In reply to Andrey V. Elsukov from comment #8) > So what! Most DNS/TCP response is a few of packets. What does it > matter if it is the 3 or 4 packets. Zone transfers need a lot of such few packets. > What matters is avoiding PMTUD as it is NOT reliable. Setting the > IPv6 packet size to 1280 avoids triggering PMTUD issues. Limiting > the packet size avoids timeout and retransmissions due to PTB not > been generated due to rate limiting or being lost due to stupid > load balancers and firewalls that drop ICMP. >=20 > Go put your validating resolvers behind a IPv6 in IPv4 link then > come back and say this is not needed. When I build the network in the DC, I know better what MTU can be used in my network. And forcing 1280 bytes size for the network, where 9k is the defau= lt MTU is at least strange in the 2017. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=