[Bridge] Re: Any way of knowing a packet's been defragmented
Henrik Nordstrom
hno at marasystems.com
Thu Aug 5 06:10:42 PDT 2004
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 bdschuym at pandora.be wrote:
> As Stephen explained, bridge ports of the same bridge device no longer
> need to have the same mtu. So the bridge code needs to drop packets
> (ARP, IP, whatever) that will be too long for the output port.
Eh.. I do not claim to be a bridge guru, but won't such bridge cause
serious havoc on the network much like PMTU blackholes does?
You should either reject creating such bridge, or make sure to fragment
packets including ICMP MUST FRAGMENT generation when not allowed (which
requires an IP).
Regards
Henrik
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