Hi,
We have a windows service using the winsock2 libraries. It uses the WSASend and TransmitFile functions to send data to another windows service of the same kind. This service has been working well for a few years.
This windows service is used to transfer files from a sub site to a head site and vice versa, the link between the sites has recently been encrypted using IPSEC over GRE, this has caused a reduction of the MTU on the link. However, some packets sent by this service have a Do not fragment flag set. This then causes the router to send an ICMP message (as part of Path MTU Discovery ) to the server asking it to break down the size of the packet so that the router can send the smaller packets.
When looking at the traffic, the packets are never broken down and sent back to the router. This means that the service at the remote site never gets these packets. As far as the windows service is concerned, the WSASend and TransmitFile methods return success.
We want to avoid dropping the MTU of the server that the service runs on, as that will also affect communications on the local network.
Is it the responsibility of the windows service to deal with the ICMP message, or can we setup the server it runs on to handle the ICMP message? Either way, how do we make it so that it works?
Thanks in advance.
