Re: Bug report: tcp staled when send-q != 0, timers == 0.

Eugene B. Berdnikov (berd@elf.ihep.su)
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:35:36 +0400


Hello.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:56:41PM +0400, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> ppp also inclined to the mss/mtu bug, it allocates too large buffers
> and never breaks them. The difference between kernels looks funny, but
> I think it finds explanation in differences between mss/mtu's.

In my experiments linux simply sets mss=mtu-40 at the start of ethernet
connections. I do not know why, but belive it's ok. How the version of
kernel and configuration options can affect mss later?

-- 
 Eugene Berdnikov
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