RE: How to prevent IP fragmentation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Seyman [mailto:seyman@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thu, June 26, 2003 10:02 PM
> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: How to prevent IP fragmentation
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:39:48AM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
> > 
> > I have a shrike and psyche boxes, which reside in different 
> subnets that are
> > connected through Win2k router. Whenever I send a long 
> packets between them
> > I get a "Destination unreacheable" response saying 
> "Fragmentation needed"
> > from a router. In ethernet sniffer I see that both boxes set a don't
> > fragment flag in the IP header. Is there a way to prevent 
> this behavior.
> 
> Run the command "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag" .
> 
> If you want to make it a permanant setting, put this in 
> /etc/sysctl.conf
> and run the command "service network restart":
> 
> # Enables automatic defragmentation
> net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag = 1

Emmanuel,

There is no such file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 directory.




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