netdev - Re: [PATCH][BUG] tcp: advertise MSS requested by user

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Message-Id: <200808281250.35006.denys@visp.net.lb>
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:34 +0300
From:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	virtualphtn@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lachlan.andrew@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BUG] tcp: advertise MSS requested by user


> I think this got broken by accident several years ago, shows how many
> people use this feature :)
>
> We used to use ->mss_clamp to determine the MSS option value,
> but along the way when all of the code using ->advmss et al.
> was added it didn't get translated correctly.
>
> Thanks for your patch, I'll mull over this and put in the fix
> once I understand exactly how this got broken.
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I am using, just i workaround this over iptables MSS option. You feel 
discomfort, but most people start googling and see this trick with iptables, 
and they use it.

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