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From: "William N." <netfilter@riseup.net>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Correct way of setting the TCP max segment sizes for IPv4 and IPv6?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:48:51 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240410154851.6a627134@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9AE2B9F2-FE7D-440F-A595-F015957ECBFF@slavino.sk>

On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:04:41 +0000 Slavko wrote:

> RFC 9293, sect. 3.7.1

By asking "What about the RFC" I didn't mean "Which RFC sets the
numbers". I meant "Why do you use the same MSS for IPv4 and IPv6,
considering the RFC explains they are different?"

> AFAIK main problem of too low MSS is CPU increase,

This is how I understand it too. Wikipedia calls it "protocol
overhead". I don't know if there are other implications though (e.g. OS
fingerprinting or something else).

> using IPv4 limit for both solves corner cases...

How? The two corner cases are different and 1220 is > x2 than 536, i.e.
very far from the "corner" (limit), i.e. it would not improve
efficiency.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-10 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-08 19:24 Correct way of setting the TCP max segment sizes for IPv4 and IPv6? William N.
2024-04-09 18:43 ` Slavko
2024-04-09 19:33   ` William N.
2024-04-09 22:04     ` Slavko
2024-04-10 15:48       ` William N. [this message]
2024-04-10 18:02         ` Slavko
2024-04-10 18:24           ` William N.

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