From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:48:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Clamping tcp mss values to decrease latency Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:23:48PM +0100, Martin Devera wrote: > At my production server when I set MTU to 640 (I hoped in better link > utilization) I suddenly was not able to reach some webs from it. I > discovered that the are sending me 1500 byte packets with DF set and > they didn't pay atttention to my MTU. It is obvious problem in MTU > discovery. > > You are roght that MSS is set to MTU but it is bad luck it you have > small MSS but you can't reach some hosts. > > MSS setting for routes works well for me even for localy generated > flows. Is there some problem I don't see ? No ;-) -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/