> On 20. Feb 2021, at 05:32, Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 19 February 2021, at 01:48, Michael Tuexen 
>> <michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 19. Feb 2021, at 03:29, Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't know if this is a feature or a bug.  On FreeBSD 9, the following 
>>> ping worked:
>>> 
>>> ping6 -s 5000 -b 6000 fe80::213:72ff:fec3:180f%dc0
>> I don't have a dc0 interface, but using re0 at one side and bge at the 
>> other, I get
>> with FreeBSD CURRENT:
>> tuexen@cirrus:~ % ping6 -s 5000 -b 6000 fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0
>> PING6(5048=40+8+5000 bytes) fe80::aaa1:59ff:fe0c:da92%re0 --> 
>> fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0
>> 5008 bytes from fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0, icmp_seq=0 hlim=255 time=0.393 
>> ms
>> 5008 bytes from fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0, icmp_seq=1 hlim=255 time=0.419 
>> ms
>> 5008 bytes from fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0, icmp_seq=2 hlim=255 time=0.354 
>> ms
>> 5008 bytes from fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0, icmp_seq=3 hlim=255 time=0.446 
>> ms
>> 5008 bytes from fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0, icmp_seq=4 hlim=255 time=0.421 
>> ms
>> 5008 bytes from fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0, icmp_seq=5 hlim=255 time=0.372 
>> ms
>> ^C
>> --- fe80::2e09:4dff:fe00:c00%re0 ping6 statistics ---
>> 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
>> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.354/0.401/0.446/0.031 ms
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Michael
>>> 
>>> It had to be stopped, but it returned the number of ping responses received 
>>> along with statistics.
>>> 
>>> With FreeBSD 12.2 and 13.0-BETA2, it returns 100% packet loss.  tcpdump 
>>> shows that it properly fragments the data, sends it, the other end receives 
>>> it and sends back the ACKs.  The ACKs are received, but somehow ping 
>>> doesn't find out that the packets were received.
>>> 
>>> Without the -s and -b arguments, it works and you get 100% packets received.
> 
> I found the problem.  pf does not handle IPv6 packets that are fragmented the 
> obvious way.  I suspect it is because icmp header is only in the first 
> fragment.  I had to reassemble fragments in pf in order to make the large 
> pings work.
Glad you found the problem. Thanks for letting us know.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> -- Doug
> 
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