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Add support for MTU Lock #1067

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@trozet trozet commented Mar 26, 2025

When adding a route with "mtu lock " path MTU discovery (PMTUD) will not be tried and packets will be sent without DF bit set. Upon receiving an ICMP needs frag due to PMTUD, the kernel will not install a cached route and lower the MTU.

When adding a route with "mtu lock <mtu>" path MTU discovery (PMTUD)
will not be tried and packets will be sent without DF bit set. Upon
receiving an ICMP needs frag due to PMTUD, the kernel will not install a
cached route and lower the MTU.

Signed-off-by: Tim Rozet <trozet@redhat.com>
trozet added a commit to trozet/ovn-kubernetes that referenced this pull request Mar 26, 2025
This brings in required support for MTU lock. Should be set back to
upstream once the following PR merges:

vishvananda/netlink#1067

Signed-off-by: Tim Rozet <trozet@redhat.com>
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aboch commented Mar 26, 2025

LGTM

@aboch aboch merged commit 9b61d26 into vishvananda:main Mar 26, 2025
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trozet added a commit to trozet/ovn-kubernetes that referenced this pull request Mar 27, 2025
vishvananda/netlink#1067

is needed to set mtu lock on routes.

Signed-off-by: Tim Rozet <trozet@redhat.com>
trozet added a commit to trozet/ovn-kubernetes that referenced this pull request Apr 10, 2025
vishvananda/netlink#1067

is needed to set mtu lock on routes.

Signed-off-by: Tim Rozet <trozet@redhat.com>
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