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Re: [lwip-users] Do not fragment (DF) in a UDP transmission.
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Roger Cover |
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Re: [lwip-users] Do not fragment (DF) in a UDP transmission. |
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Mon, 9 Mar 2020 17:08:21 +0000 |
Greetings Simon,
The Linux man pages mention the IP_PMTUDISC_DO flag that "forces the
don't-fragment flag to be set on all outgoing packets" in the setsockopt()
description.
The documentation for setsockopt() for BSD 4.3 lists the similar flag
"IP_DONTFRAG", with the qualifier "This option is supported for sockets with an
address family of AF_INET and type of SOCK_DGRAM or SOCK_RAW only."
The Microsoft documentation at:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/ipproto-ip-socket-options
lists an option called IP_DONTFRAGMENT, about which they state "Microsoft
TCP/IP providers respect this option for UDP and ICMP."
There is also a reference for the .NET framework at
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.sockets.socket.dontfragment?view=netframework-4.8
if you have any interest in that.
There is also a comment I do not completely understand in the lwIP ip.c file
(line 790 in the ip_output_if() function, version 1.4.1) that states "don't
fragment if interface has mtu set to 0."
I am not very familiar with sockets programming. I did some 20 years ago, but I
am sure it has changed since then. I have been using the lwIP callback API in
all my products for the last 14 years. Since I am using the callback API, I
will need something that works through that API. I hope this information is
sufficient. I am very willing to patch my system and do testing for you. I just
need some guidance about where to make the changes. I have been using lwIP for
some time, but I have not paid that much attention to its interior. It has
always just worked for me, straight out of the box.
Regards,
Roger W. Cover
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Subject: Re: [lwip-users] Do not fragment (DF) in a UDP transmission.
Am 06.03.2020 um 21:37 schrieb Roger Cover:
> Greetings,
>
> I am writing a video transmitter. The protocol I am using requires that a
> "test packet" has its do not fragment bit set. This is used to determine the
> maximum usable MTU of the intervening network nodes.
>
> I would like to know the recommended method for setting this bit in my UDP
> transmission. I am currently using the ip_output_if() function, and it does
> not have any arguments to allow this.
That's currently not supported (hasn't been requested so far). If you
tell me a standard way to do that (e.g. how is it done on sockets), I
guess adding this should not be too hard.
Regards,
Simon
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