FreeBSD 13.0-RC1 ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), length 2942 on 1500 MTU

Lars Schotte lars at gustik.eu
Mon Mar 8 19:18:26 UTC 2021


Hey friends,

I am running this FreeBSD 13.0-RC1 and I am experiencing strange
Ethernet frame sizes, TCP sizes well above 2500 on an MTU of 1500.
Somehow it seems that this problem only applies on IPv6,
IPv4 works fine.

I have seen some strange network behaviour with TCP connections
randomly dropping under load, and now I see that they are too big.
MSS-MAX on PF also does not help. It seems to ignore my 1440 setting.

Something is broken here and I do not know what.

Is anyone else experiencing this on IPv6?

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 Lars Schotte
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