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Re: Non-fragmented ICMPv6 packets with an IPv6 fragment header

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Subject: Re: Non-fragmented ICMPv6 packets with an IPv6 fragment header
From: "Richard Jørgensen" <ric@xxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Apr 2000 11:02:08 +0200
In-reply-to: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:29:26 +0400 (MSK DST)"
References: <200004191829.WAA07126@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
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> > Linux IPv6 stack seems to have a problem receiving ICMP6 packets, if
> > the IPv6 packet contain a fragment header, but is not fragmentet
> > (i.e. the entire packet is in _one_ fragment.
> 
> Yes... They are never "reassembled". Thank you, it will be fixed soon.

Great!

> > It seems only to be a problem with ICMP6 - having an "unused" fragment
> > header in a TCP-packet does not seem to give any problems.
> 
> It is impossible. Please, check this more creafully.
> Probably, it indicates some another bug.

Sorry, that was me. TCP-packets also newer get "reassembled".

I used telnet(1) to generate the TCP packets and didn't nottice that
telnet set the "don't fragment" bit - in which case the fragment header
is not added by the NAT-PT translation.

/ric

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