netdev - Re: Disable tcp MSS option in three way handshake?

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Message-ID: <5089C251.4090108@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:50:57 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disable tcp MSS option in three way handshake?

On 10/25/2012 03:27 PM, Vincent Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this sounds crazy, we have a weird situation that an unknown tcp
> implementation not putting tcp MSS option in the SYN/ACK which caused
> us some issue.

All that means is you/your TCP stack are to assume an MSS of 536 bytes. 
  In that sense at least, there is nothing (supposed to be) weird about it.

rick jones

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