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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4689300C.9050802@domdv.de \
--to=ast@domdv.de \
--cc=jengelh@computergmbh.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox