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Re: MPLS & Path MTU problems

  • From: "Krzysztof Szarkowicz" <kszarkowicz@freemail.hu>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:07:28 +0100
  • Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:45:25 -0500
  • To: <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>, "Donn Lasher" <dlasher@clearskynet.net>
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Check what MTU size is advertised by your LDP protocol (show mpls forwarding-table X.X.X.X. detail)

Regards,
Krzysztof Szarkowicz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donn Lasher" <dlasher@clearskynet.net>
To: <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: MPLS & Path MTU problems


> 
> I've read all the MPLS-OPS archives on this issue, and tried the fixes, and 
> I'm still seeing a problem.
> 
> two 3620's running 12.2.6, hooked to a 3524 switch. Multiple MPLS/Dot1Q 
> vlan's off both routers. When traffic passing through these routers from a 
> customer to a site blocking PMTU discovery(nice long list any more), it all 
> the traffice appears to the customer to be blackholed.
> 
> ip icmp debug shows:
> 
> Feb 20 22:39:11 X.X.X.X 5813: 3w5d: ICMP: dst (X.X.X.X) frag. needed and DF 
> set unreachable sent to 216.221.138.92
> Feb 20 22:39:12 X.X.X.X 5815: 3w5d: ICMP: dst (X.X.X.X) frag. needed and DF 
> set unreachable sent to 216.221.138.92
> 
> At the moment I'm applying a route-map to clear df bit on my NSP connected 
> router, but that's a hack. I'd really like to find and solve the real issue.
> 
> Ethernet MTU is 1500. tag-switching MTU unset (defaulting to 1500)
> tag-switching ip set on all interfaces
> 
> I've tried setting the tag-switching mtu to 1540, making sure the switch 
> was set mtu 2018, didn't make any difference.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> 
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