Re: regression: ip r change mss doesn't work in 2.6.38-git14

Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24T15:22:49Z

Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 16:08 +0100, Alessandro Suardi a écrit :
> After fixing the display issue thanks to Chris Wilson, I now have
> another problem
> (which didn't exist in 2.6.38-git2); most websites outside of my DSL link don't
> work properly (connection packet goes through, but the page load times out
> within Firefox) unless I do
>
> ip r change default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 advmss 1400
>
> This however doesn't change advmss anymore:
>
> [root@duff ~]# ip r
> default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1
> 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1004
> 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.8
> [root@duff ~]# ip r change default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 advmss 1400
> [root@duff ~]# ip r
> default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1
> 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1004
> 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.8

Indeed, we'll take a look, thanks for the report.

In the time being you can do :

ip ro change default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 advmss 1400 mtu 1500