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avodonosov on May 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn

What is strange for me - the guy in the article uses web browser, ssh and other general programs. Why whould his network stack set the DF flag.

contingencies on May 16, 2015 [–]

Maybe his kernel or an intermediate router has path MTU discovery enabled?

avodonosov on May 16, 2015 | [–]

I found the answer - he uses IPv6, where routers never fragment, they just drop the packet and send ICMP response.

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