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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 03:19:54 -0400 From: Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com> To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix violation of RFC879 in absence of MSS option On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:43:07AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > Is setting the mss to 536 actually ever sensible? > RFC 879 might say that it is the default (and the minimum > that must be supported), but in practise the actual mss > is very likely to be only slightly shorter than the standard > ethernet mss. > Although strict conformance with RFC 879 might require the mss > be clamped to 536, pragmatically a value much nearer 1400 would > make sense - systems with very low mtu/mss are probably likely > to advertise it. Read the associated bugzilla - there was at least one real world example where setting a higher MSS was causing breakage. Phil https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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