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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] TCP syncookies: introduce sysctl to configure
 the MSS tables
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:40:57 +0200
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Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> wrote:
> (compile-tested only)
> 
> This patch introduces two new sysctls
> 	net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies_mss_table
> 	net.ipv6.tcp_syncookies_mss_table
> to manipulate the TCP syncookie MSS tables

The cookie MSS table is small to begin with; trying
to find values that fit all possible clients is a losing game.

I cannot think of any scenarios where 2 machines, connected
to internet, could have different mss tables whilst _both_
improving the default values?