Re: [PATCH] Adjust MTU for IPv6 correctly

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Ferenc,


> Jan Friesse <jfriesse@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> MTU for IPv6 is 20 bytes larger then IPv4. This fact was not taken into
>> account so IPv6 packets were larger then MTU resulting in fragmentation.
>>
>> Solution is to substract correct IP header size.
> 
> I have no idea about this business, but won't optional extension headers

Before patch all packets were fragmented.

> occasionally throw off these calculations, potentially causing problems?
> 

Yes, it can happen. Sadly I was unable to find out any way to get size
of resulting packet (or if extension headers will be added) before send
(except pmtu detection). I'm open to any idea.

Regards,
  Honza




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