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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] netfilter: xtables: restrict TCPMSS to mangle table
 as intended
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:36:58 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-03-17 14:30, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> References: http://bugs.debian.org/567050
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
>> So we removed those artificial restrictions in other modules
>> just to introduce them somewhere else?
> 
> Couldn't MSS be relevant to routing?
> Just trying to figure out how the manpage came to mention it would need 
> to be limited.

Because it mangles the packet. But I don't see any point in restricting
those modules to the mangle table, the only thing that is really special
about it is rerouting.