Christian Hopps <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> The ingress node encrypts this packet and adds the IPsec
    >> encapsulation, and this IPsec-processed packet is also larger than the
    >> Link MTU. The ingress node fragments this IPsec-processed packet and
    >> sends all the fragments to the egress node.

    > This should not happen. The ingress node should first fragment the
    > inner IP packet so that it fits in the tunnel (i.e., so that the ESP
    > packets it creates do not violate it's own MTU).

You can't do that if DF=1, or IPv6.
You can form big ESP packets and then fragment them, even with IPv6.
DF=0 for IPv4 on ESP packets is good, until there is a firewall that cant
cope with fragments.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide




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