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RE: MTU path discovery and IPSec

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arjan Hulsebos)
Thu Dec 4 13:19:37 2003

From: Arjan Hulsebos <ahulsebos@corp.home.nl>
To: "'Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu'" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"'jgraun@comcast.net'" <jgraun@comcast.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:18:45 +0100 
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> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:05:39 GMT, jgraun@comcast.net  said:
> 
> > 1) I assume MTU path discovery has to been in enabled on 
> each router in the path in order for it work correctly?!
> 
> Actually, no.  All that's required is that:

You also need an OS that does not set the DF-bit on every packet it sends
out. IIRC, out-of-the-box Solaris 8 is excellent at doing that. No matter
how many icmp messages it gets, it happily ignores them by insisting on
sending out frames of 1500 bytes with the DF-bit set. Makes trouble-shooting
IPSec connections, uhm.... interesting.

Cheers,

Arjan H

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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>&gt; On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:05:39 GMT, =
jgraun@comcast.net&nbsp; said:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>&gt; </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>&gt; &gt; 1) I assume MTU path discovery has to been =
in enabled on </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>&gt; each router in the path in order for it work =
correctly?!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>&gt; </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>&gt; Actually, no.&nbsp; All that's required is =
that:</FONT>
</P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>You also need an OS that does not set the DF-bit on =
every packet it sends out. IIRC, out-of-the-box Solaris 8 is excellent =
at doing that. No matter how many icmp messages it gets, it happily =
ignores them by insisting on sending out frames of 1500 bytes with the =
DF-bit set. Makes trouble-shooting IPSec connections, uhm.... =
interesting.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Cheers,</FONT>
</P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Arjan H</FONT>
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