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Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:52:41 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>, William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: path_mtu_discovery
Message-ID:  <3C376799.3611EB4@mindspring.com>
References:  <26E71536-013D-11D6-8ED3-003065D5E9A4@infospace.com> <3C36149B.B9C02DCF@mindspring.com> <20020104223235.GA64301@gvr.gvr.org> <200201042302.g04N2A789953@whizzo.transsys.com> <20020105194037.G28939@FreeBSD.org>

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Jesper Skriver wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:02:10PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> > One possibility is that the code in icmp_input() processing the
> > PMTU discovery-induced ICMP message could verify that the returned
> > header in fact is associated with a connection on the host and
> > maybe even has sane sequence numbers (for TCP segments).
> 
> The code does that today

That's why you spoof the route between the machine and the next
hop, after making a *valid* connection...

The only think that can get around it is an overly anal hop
count comparison (which could fail, if there were multiple
equivalent routes), or turning off the ICMP (which is what
started this thread in the first place).

-- Terry

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