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Re: strange behaviour

To: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: strange behaviour
From: Cedric Blancher <blancher@cartel-securite.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:55:09 +0100
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Le lundi 26 février 2007 à 18:43 +0100, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> Actually "clamp" means "decrease if bigger", the MSS is clamped only 
> when it is bigger than PMTU - 40. So it won't break anything. It will 
> just have no effect.

Right, I didn't read the code far enough to notice that:

if (tcpmssinfo->mss == IPT_TCPMSS_CLAMP_PMTU && oldmss <= newmss)
        return IPT_CONTINUE;

> What about :
> iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -o eth1 -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN \
>    -m tcpmss --mss 1453: -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1452

Makes sense.


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