On Wednesday 2010-01-20 22:39, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Wednesday 2010-01-20 22:21, Simon Arlott wrote: > >>The TCPMSS target is dropping SYN packets where: >> 1) There is data, or >> 2) The data offset makes the TCP header larger than >> the packet. >> >>Both of these result in an error level printk. >> >>This change fixes the drop of SYN packets with data >>(because the MSS option can safely be modified) and >>passes packets with no MSS option instead of adding >>one (which is not valid). > >Can you explain why the automatic addition of a MSS option is removed? That is, of course, for the git log. If I followed the thread right, it was that adding the option could exceed the MTU. Well, can't we check for the outgoing MTU? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
