Subject: Re: IPv6 autoconfiguration and MTU
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Richard Braun <syn@sceen.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/19/2004 14:50:24
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:18:34AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > I noticed that NetBSD 1.6 doesn't care about the MTU value present in
> > Router Advertisments packets. Is this a bug or an unimplemented option ?
> > This would really be useful for natvie PPPoE links in order to lower the
> > MSS value, since MSS clamping isn't available in IPv6.
>=20
> >From what I remember, it worked for me (I'm running 2.0 now and it
> definitively works).
> But I have
> net.inet6.tcp6.mss_ifmtu=3D1
> in /etc/sysctl.conf, maybe this is what made it work (I don't remmeber).
>=20
> --=20
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --

I have this option too, but it doesn't :-/. Could it be backported ?
I'm currently using a patch to set the mtu at the needed value (lol).

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Richard Braun

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