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| author | Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> | 2014-05-10 11:56:37 +0900 |
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| committer | Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> | 2015-11-20 19:01:40 +0530 |
| commit | d772548f37123db73200c99c8dca0766c8e4b0de (patch) | |
| tree | 2bd14b6cf58267e439bcebd67ed7ec871f12aa59 /Documentation | |
| parent | c1047e2f4641aeeafbf1448fde64cf6c8203e39d (diff) | |
net: Use fwmark reflection in PMTU discovery.
Currently, routing lookups used for Path PMTU Discovery in
absence of a socket or on unmarked sockets use a mark of 0.
This causes PMTUD not to work when using routing based on
netfilter fwmark mangling and fwmark ip rules, such as:
iptables -j MARK --set-mark 17
ip rule add fwmark 17 lookup 100
This patch causes these route lookups to use the fwmark from the
received ICMP error when the fwmark_reflect sysctl is enabled.
This allows the administrator to make PMTUD work by configuring
appropriate fwmark rules to mark the inbound ICMP packets.
Black-box tested using user-mode linux by pointing different
fwmarks at routing tables egressing on different interfaces, and
using iptables mangling to mark packets inbound on each interface
with the interface's fwmark. ICMPv4 and ICMPv6 PMTU discovery
work as expected when mark reflection is enabled and fail when
it is disabled.
Change-Id: Id7fefb7ec1ff7f5142fba43db1960b050e0dfaec
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 2ea4c45cf1c8..52ec74435190 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies). If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the - fwmark of the packet they are replying to. + fwmark of the packet they are replying to. Similarly affects the fwmark + used by internal routing lookups triggered by incoming packets, such as + the ones used for Path MTU Discovery. Default: 0 route/max_size - INTEGER @@ -1345,7 +1347,9 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies). If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the - fwmark of the packet they are replying to. + fwmark of the packet they are replying to. Similarly affects the fwmark + used by internal routing lookups triggered by incoming packets, such as + the ones used for Path MTU Discovery. Default: 0 conf/interface/*: |