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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:33:17 -0700
From:      Jeff Behl <jeff@expertcity.com>
To:        net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: MTU not working?
Message-ID:  <3D6D257D.5080300@expertcity.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208191618520.32737-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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Just an FYI, but I have opened a bug report on this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42137

so hopefully someone with the know-how can come up with a fix.

jeff


Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Steve Francis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Allow me to respond for Jeff (we work at same place, and have both been
>>looking this issue)
>>
>>ICMP's being  blocked are the most common explanation for this - but
>>this is not the case here.
>>
>>tcpdump run on the server system shows the ICMP fragmention required -
>>DF bit set messages being received, and - the irrefutable proof that it
>>is not an ICMP filtering issue -the FreeBSD system DOES lower the MTU
>>for that host's cloned route  to the value specified in the ICMP (1420
>>in the snippet below).  New packets are segmented to sizes <= the new
>>MTU, but it continues resend the original packet over  and over, in the
>>original 1500 byte size.
>>
>>So I still say FreeBSD has broken pMTU-D code.
>>
>>This is reproducible at will, so we can collect whatever info anyone
>>wants.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Yes 
> tcp needs to forget it ever sent that data, and refactor the entire
> transmit window. 
> 
> I'd agree this is a bug if it's reproducible by others too.
> 



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