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    ipv6: Add sysctl for per namespace flow label reflection · 22b6722b
    Jakub Sitnicki authored
    Reflecting IPv6 Flow Label at server nodes is useful in environments
    that employ multipath routing to load balance the requests. As "IPv6
    Flow Label Reflection" standard draft [1] points out - ICMPv6 PTB error
    messages generated in response to a downstream packets from the server
    can be routed by a load balancer back to the original server without
    looking at transport headers, if the server applies the flow label
    reflection. This enables the Path MTU Discovery past the ECMP router in
    load-balance or anycast environments where each server node is reachable
    by only one path.
    
    Introduce a sysctl to enable flow label reflection per net namespace for
    all newly created sockets. Same could be earlier achieved only per
    socket by setting the IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag for the IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR
    socket option.
    
    [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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