> I also believe that FreeBSD has done the best it can, and reasonably so. It 
> is debatable whether a ICMP6 PTB message should apply to all currently open 
> TCP sessions to the same destination, as I wonder about multi-path TCP and 
> path diversity here.

There are certainly different ways to implement that, without inserting a 
fragmentation header. For example, if the lower layer knows that the packet is 
too big, it could send the local equivalent of "ICMP too big" back to the TCP 
layer.

-- Christian Huitema


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