[ipv6hackers] funny FreeBSD bug

Simon Perreault simon.perreault at viagenie.ca
Thu Jul 26 17:47:18 CEST 2012


Le 2012-07-26 08:35, Marc Heuse a écrit :
> I found a funny bug in freebsd (9.0 with all updates):
> if you send an ICMP toobig message to it with a too low MTU size,
> FreeBSD will prepend any packet data with an one-shot fragment (or
> atomic fragment as Fernando calls it).

Why do you think it's a bug? Seems like normal IPv6 behaviour to me. 
It's in the RFC...

Simon
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