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Etienne Dechamps
176ee01526 Make sure packet header structures are correctly packed on Windows.
Modern versions of GCC handle structure packing differently when
compiling for Windows, as reported in the following GCC bug report:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52991

In practice, this affects tinc because it uses packed structs as a
convenient way to populate packet headers. "struct ip" is especially
affected - on Linux, sizeof(struct ip) returns 20 as expected, while on
Windows, it returns 24 because of the broken alignment.

This in turn completely breaks code that has to populate an IP header.
Specifically, this breaks route_ipv4_unreachable() which is responsible,
among other things, for the generation of ICMP Fragmentation Needed
messages. On Windows, these messages are corrupted beyond hope because
of this alignment issue. For TCP connections that are established
before tinc obtains a fix on the MTU (and thus are not MSS clamped),
this can result in massive disruption.

This commit fixes the issue by forcing GCC to use standard alignment
for all packed structures in the tinc codebase instead of the MSVC
alignment.
2015-03-15 10:12:18 +00:00
Guus Sliepen
0ee139e914 Make sure PMTU discovery works in switch mode with VLAN tags.
Before, when tinc saw a packet larger than the PMTU with a VLAN tag, it would
not know what to do with it, and would just forward it via TCP. Now, tinc
handles 802.1q packets correctly, as long as there is only one tag.
2012-11-10 23:55:56 +01:00
Guus Sliepen
d917c8cb6b Fix whitespace. 2012-10-10 17:17:49 +02:00
Guus Sliepen
35b1c25093 Move source from lib/ to src/.
The utility functions in the lib/ directory do not really form a library.
Also, now that we build two binaries, tincctl does not need everything that was
in libvpn.a, so it is wasteful to link to it.
2009-12-31 13:19:13 +01:00
Renamed from lib/ethernet.h (Browse further)