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From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: mss to pmtu clamping partially broken?
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:04:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4689300C.9050802@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706301034320.22579@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Do you really need clamping? It's a hack, since TCP should do MSS negotiation
> itself. (Of course it may happen that some routers are broken.) But usually not
> for incoming packets.

You never know when you hit ICMP blackholes, broken routers and other
evil things. Better safe than sorry so clamping is the way to go for me.

-- 
Andreas Steinmetz                       SPAMmers use robotrap@domdv.de

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-02 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 11:09 mss to pmtu clamping partially broken? Andreas Steinmetz
2007-06-29 11:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-29 11:58   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-06-29 12:03     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-29 12:06       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-06-29 12:13         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-29 12:16           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-07-02 17:02           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-06-30  8:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-02 17:04   ` Andreas Steinmetz [this message]
2007-07-02 18:28     ` Phil Dibowitz
2007-07-02 19:16       ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2007-07-02 19:35         ` Phil Dibowitz
2007-07-02 19:50           ` Krzysztof Oledzki

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