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From: Andy Furniss <andyqos@ukfsn.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: John Lister <john.lister@kickstone.co.uk>,
	Richard Thornton <richie.thornton@gmail.com>,
	netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Having trouble properly configuring my firewall
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:13:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F96A6FB.5030309@ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1204241233040.8267@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2012-04-24 10:49, John Lister wrote:

>>> 8-A FORWARD -o ppp0 -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -m tcpmss
>>> --mss 1400:65495 -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu
>
> One does not really need TCPMSS, for there is PMTUD.

Hmm, did someone mend the internet for pppoe users, or maybe I 
misunderstand what you mean.

-m tcpmss --mss 1400:65495

looks redundant. I suppose you really need to assess your own situation 
in any case (I had an ISP once that for a while caused 64k mtu on ppp).


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24  8:09 Having trouble properly configuring my firewall Richard Thornton
2012-04-24  8:49 ` John Lister
2012-04-24 10:34   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-04-24 13:13     ` Andy Furniss [this message]
2012-04-24 17:09 ` Humberto Jucá

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