Re: [PATCH] Adjust MTU for IPv6 correctly

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On 10/02/2014 10:53 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 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
> occasionally throw off these calculations, potentially causing problems?
> 

It shouldn't be a problem as we don't request any IPv6 special options
on the socket and all Path MTU calculation algorithm I have seen around
don't check for those ones and still hit the right values.

Fabio
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