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 netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
