as discussed in tech-net several weeks ago. It turned out that
KAME had already added this functionality to the IPv6 stack, so
I followed their example in adding the sysctl variables
net.inet.icmp.rediraccept and net.inet.icmp.redirtimeout.
entering rtentry's for hosts we're not actually communicating
with.
Do this by invoking the ctlinput for the protocol, which is
responsible for validating the ICMP message:
* TCP -- Lookup the connection based on the address/port
pairs in the ICMP message.
* AH/ESP -- Lookup the SA based on the SPI in the ICMP message.
If validation succeeds, ctlinput is responsible for calling
icmp_mtudisc(). icmp_mtudisc() then invokes callbacks registered
by protocols (such as TCP) which want to take some sort of special
action when a path's MTU changes. For TCP, this is where we now
refresh cached routes and re-enter slow-start.
As a side-effect, this fixes the problem where TCP would not be
notified when a path's MTU changed if AH/ESP were being used.
XXX Note, this is only a fix for the IPv4 case. For the IPv6
XXX case, we need to wait for the KAME folks.
Reviewed by sommerfeld@netbsd.org and itojun@netbsd.org.
itojun