Marco Berizzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I kindly would like to know why linux reply to ICMP > echo request packets with the DF bit set always to 0.
We do that because that's the only sensible thing to do if you actually want ICMP messages to reach the destination host. PMTU on ICMP does not make sense. Furthermore, ICMP echo means echoing at the ICMP level, it does not mean that we have to echo things inside the IP header. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- VGER BF report: U 0.5 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
