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Re: ICMPv6 "too-big" packets ignored (filtered ?) by Cloudflare farms


From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn () mork no>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:08:59 +0100

Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> writes:

On 3/5/19 2:54 AM, Thomas Bellman wrote:
Out of curiosity, which operating systems put anything useful (for use
in ECMP) into the flow label of IPv6 packets?  At the moment, I only
have access to CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines, and both of them set the
flow label to zero for all traffic.

Did you submit a bug report?

I believe this was fixed 5 years ago (in Linux v3.17):
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cb1ce2ef387b01686469487edd45994872d52d73

But RHEL and CentOS are using kernels from the stone age, so they
haven't noticed yet.


Bjørn


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