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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:26:58 +0400
From:      "Dennis S. Davidoff" <null@1system.ru>
To:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Need to frag (DF) :)
Message-ID:  <20030331102658.GA66056@mail.1system.ru>

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Hi all.

After successful authorization and setting tunnel by mpd I've got a
problem with packet fragmentation. 

rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
		net 172.16.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.1.255
		ether 00:02:44:2e:35:da
		media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
		status: active
rl1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
		inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
		ether 00:10:dc:06:e8:91
		media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
		status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
		inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
ng0: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1392
        inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffffff

As you can see, mtu is 1392. So any attempt to open big content from
site or download a big file will fail. tcpdump shows:

14:13:09.876867 172.16.1.2 > 217.106.231.104: icmp: 192.168.0.168
unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1392) (DF)
...and so on.

Also I'll trying to test my gateway like that:
C:\Documents and Settings\null>ping -f -l 1500 172.16.0.1

Pinging 172.16.0.1 with 1500 bytes of data:

Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.
Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set.

Ping statistics for 172.16.0.1:
	Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 0, Lost = 2 (100% loss),
Control-C

Someone from obsd tells me that in obsd pf it could be solved by the rule:
scrub in all no-df fragment reassemble
...which defragments all packets and removes DF flag (i guess)

P.S. On my gateway I have an ipfw rule that allows any icmp type.

Thanks for any advices.

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis



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