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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:09:28 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Michael Tuexen <tuexen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPSec transport mode, mtu, fragmentation...
Message-ID:  <20200117150928.GB66677@admin.sibptus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <70b0b855-189b-03c2-0712-fc1e35640702@grosbein.net>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 17.01.2020 16:36, Victor Sudakov =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
>=20
> > Back to the point. I've figured out that both encrypted (in transport
> > mode) and unencrypted TCP segments have the same MSS=3D1460. Then I'm
> > completely at a loss how the encrypted packets avoid being fragmented.
> > TCP has no way to know in advance that encryption overhead will be
> > added.
>=20
> If outgoing route (f.e. default route) has lower MTU, kernel should respo=
nd with EMSGSIZE
> to TCP's attempt to send oversized packet when PMTUD is enabled.
>=20
> If PMTUD discovers that path mtu is low, it should store this information=
 in the hostcache
> (see sysctl net.inet.tcp.hostcache.list) and use hostcache's MTU for same=
 goal.

Should this result in a smaller MSS in TCP to such hosts?

PS "sysctl net.inet.tcp.hostcache.list | grep 192.168.246.11" yields
nothing, and yet 192.168.246.11 is the VM with which I have a transport
mode SA.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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