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To: angico <angico@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: strange behaviour
From: Cedric Blancher <blancher@cartel-securite.fr>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:07:55 +0000
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Le lundi 26 février 2007 à 07:35 -0800, angico a écrit :
> hi, buddys. thanks for your attention, but...
> nothing works, yet. and this option "--clamp-mss-to-pmtu" just send me an 
> error: "iptables: Invalid argument". 
> angico.

My mistake.
As Pascal stated, you have to specify a "-p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN"
as well, as TCPMSS clamping only works on TCP packets with SYN flag set:

        iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -o ppp0 -p tcp \
           --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu

It should work better.


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