[4684] in RedHat Linux List
Re: DF flag in tcp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Sat Nov 16 11:13:26 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:10:40 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961115164541.1822C-100000@tower.netpath.net> from "Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF" at Nov 15, 96 04:51:48 pm
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> Is there some reason that the 2.0.x kernels are setting the Don't fragment
> bit in the header of every packet ? This is causing me insermountable
> problems when using slip. (I turned it off) The 1.2.x kernels did not do
> this. With slip if the packet won't fit in the slip packet it should
> return a ICMP network unreachable. I suppose this is to trigger a mtu
> size discovery routine.
Say Y to CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY when configuring your kernel
and the DF bit will not be set anymore.
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