Commit a680b6f0 authored by Juliusz Chroboczek's avatar Juliusz Chroboczek

Set minimal MTU to 512 bytes.

Now that we have sub-TLVs and crypto keys, the previous value is no longer
suitable.
parent d9cf8454
......@@ -311,14 +311,17 @@ interface_up(struct interface *ifp, int up)
mtu = 1280;
}
/* We need to be able to fit at least two messages into a packet,
so MTUs below 116 require lower layer fragmentation. */
/* In IPv6, the minimum MTU is 1280, and every host must be able
to reassemble up to 1500 bytes, but I'd rather not rely on this. */
if(mtu < 128) {
fprintf(stderr, "Suspiciously low MTU %d on interface %s (%u).\n",
/* We need to be able to fit at least a router-ID and an update,
up to 116 bytes, and that's not counting sub-TLVs or crypto keys.
In IPv6, the minimum MTU is 1280, and every host must be able
to reassemble up to 1500 bytes. In IPv4, every host must be
able to reassemble up to 576 bytes. At any rate, the Babel spec
says that every node must be able to parse packets of size 512. */
if(mtu < 512) {
fprintf(stderr,
"Suspiciously low MTU %d on interface %s (%u), using 512.\n",
mtu, ifp->name, ifp->ifindex);
mtu = 128;
mtu = 512;
}
if(ifp->buf.buf)
......
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