On 17-Nov-00 JINMEI Tatuya / $B?@L@C#:H(B wrote:
>>> Do you care to know whether the kernel has path mtu information or
>>> is just returning the mtu of the outgoing interface?
>>>
>
>> [ylg]=> No, I don't care. I'm only interessed in outgoing interface mtu. I
>> think that your proposal to reuse the proposed ip6_mtuinfo structure is a
>> good
>> idea.
>
> Then why not just look up the routing table and get the MTU of the
> outgoing interface? I admit that a single operation to do that would
> be convenient, but I personally don't think we have to add a separate
> socket option for this particular purpose.
>
You're right but, as you mentionned, it's not a single operation. I still think
that it would be useful to get the outgoing interface MTU with a single
operation not only for the particular case of tracemtu (I admit that create a
new option just for a particular case is a bad idea) because UDP/Raw
applications eventually need to know outgoing interface MTU when they have
disabled fragmentation.
Regards,
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Yves Legrandg�rard
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Date: 17-Nov-00
Time: 18:50:12
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