On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:09:46PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> By default we set the DF bit on tunneled packets because we want to
> get path MTU discovery from the underlying network.  In turn this
> causes Linux to leave the IP ID as 0 because it believes that
> fragmentation can never occur.  However, with GRE fragmentation is
> still possible because we may get a large packet to be encapsulated
> and let the local IP stack do fragmentation.  As long as packets are
> kept in order fragments are not misassociated and everything works fine.
> However, if there is reordering in the underlying network then packets
> can become corrupted.  This forces selection of an IP ID for GRE packets
> to avoid misassociation.
> 
> Bug #6128
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
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