Subject: Re: IPv6 mtu or pmtu-discovery problem?
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 11/16/2002 13:35:47
On Sat 16 Nov 2002 at 11:21:02 +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> as far as i know, there's no bug in PMTUD code (it works fine in my
> environment). i can think of the following reasons:
> - if there's any router which filters ICMPv6 packet between you and
> ftp.netbsd.org, you can experience the problem as described above.
> - if there's pair of routers that have tunnel between them, and with
> MTU configuration is different, you may experience the problem.
> i have confirmed that you have some problem if you establish tunnel
> between juniper (MTU = infinty) and KAME (1280). if you set juniper's
> MTU to 1280, it works just fine.
Thanks. I did another experiment: I tried it from my provider's shell
account, and from there it works. This points to a misconfiguration on
their part, which should be relatively easy to resolve (at least easier
than if the problem were further away).
> itojun
-Olaf.
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