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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2002 14:14:20 +0200
From:      Alexey Luckyanchikov <alexl@alkar.net>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird path MTU autodiscovery problem in 4.5-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20020202121420.GA30077@alkar.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020201094702.P152@gohan.cjclark.org>
References:  <20020201125326.GA3036@alkar.net> <20020201094702.P152@gohan.cjclark.org>

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote:

CJC> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:53:26PM +0200, Alexey Luckyanchikov wrote:
CJC> > Hello,
CJC> > 
CJC> > I have such network topology:
CJC> > 
CJC> > +--------+                    +--------+                    +--------+
CJC> > | Server |<---- MTU 1500 ---->| Router |<---- MTU 1476 ---->| Client |
CJC> > +--------+                    +--------+                    +--------+
CJC> 
CJC> [snip]
CJC> 
CJC> > 14:06:48.682558 router > server: icmp: client unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1476) for server.7 > client.1371: [|tcp] (DF) (ttl 61, id 25428, len 1500) (ttl 253, id 2491, len 56)
CJC> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
CJC> > Router say to server that he must to decrease packet size
CJC> 
CJC> Is "router" the same IP address that "server" has as the route to
CJC> "client?" That is, there aren't any aliases on "router's" interface
CJC> with "server" making problems?

"router" have not any aliases on it's interfaces. Seems like problem is
in FreeBSD 4.5-RELESE. "Server" with installed 4.4-RELEASE worked
without any problems.

-- 
Sincerely,                                      e-mail: alexl@alkar.net
Alexey Luckyanchikov

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