Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 17:37:50 +0100 From: Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl> To: davidg@root.com Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, bugs@freebsd.org, wollman@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in netinet/tcp_input.c Message-ID: <25802.826475870@curie.cs.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 04:41:37 PST." <199603081241.EAA00927@Root.COM>
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On Fri, 08 Mar 1996 04:41:37 PST, David Greenman wrote: > > Specifically, the tcp_mssopt() procedure fails to use the > > rt->rt_rmx.rmx_mtu information when calculating the maximum > > segment size for outgoing connections. This results in the > > remote end sending us packets larger then we intend, messing > > up any fine tuning we tried to do with the route recvpipe/sendpipe/mtu. > > I'll pass this along, but my understanding is that the code was changed to > the way it is in order for Path MTU Discovery to work correctly with asymetric > routes (all too common in the Internet today). The change was made on Oct 13th > of last year: I share David's opinion. Andras
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