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Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised

From Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking, comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised
Date 2011-05-22 11:50 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sun, 22 May 2011 11:31:25 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-05-22, Mark Hobley wrote: ...
>> I'll try dropping another 12 bytes off the ip route command and retest:
>>
>> ip route change default via 10.0.0.1 mtu lock 1400
>>
>> Am I right in that the below datagram is wrong, because the mss is
>> 1460, which is above the value of the mtu in the routing table?
>> Shouldn't the value of the mtu have been factored in here, and a new
>> mss calculated based on the mtu?
>>
>> 03:43:04.320740 IP venus.markhobley.yi.org.52201 >
>> news.eternal-september.org.nntp: Flags [S], seq 2304145392, win 14600,
>> options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 47122576 ecr 0,nop,wscale 5], length 0
> 
> Yes, that seems wrong too. I have only messed with that once, as an
> experiment, but I am pretty sure my TCP stack understood it and set mss
> in the SYN accordingly. (I used 'route ... mss N' to do it, not ip(8),
> but that shouldn't matter.)

Hmmm. So if the datagram is wrong, then we have a bug. Presumably this is
a kernel bug, because it has been working for a couple of months before I
upgraded the kernel. Or could it be a library bug? I might have upgraded
some libraries, for the purpose of being able to use the new kernel.

Mark.

-- 
Mark Hobley
Linux User: #370818  http://markhobley.yi.org/

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Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-21 14:58 +0000
  Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-05-21 15:16 -0400
    Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-05-21 22:02 +0000
      Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2011-05-22 19:59 +0300
        Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 17:09 +0000
  Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-21 20:20 +0000
    Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-05-21 22:47 +0100
    Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-05-21 22:28 +0000
      Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 01:15 +0000
        Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-05-22 06:01 +0000
          Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 07:28 +0000
            Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Andy Furniss <spam@andyfurniss.entadsl.com> - 2011-05-22 11:40 +0100
              Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 12:25 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Andy Furniss <spam@andyfurniss.entadsl.com> - 2011-05-22 20:40 +0100
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Andy Furniss <spam@andyfurniss.entadsl.com> - 2011-05-22 20:56 +0100
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 22:57 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 23:12 +0000
            Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-05-22 11:31 +0000
              Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 11:50 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-05-22 12:52 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 13:27 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-05-22 19:19 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 22:12 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-25 15:55 +0000
                ip route - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-25 17:27 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39.1 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size in both directions Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-29 00:34 +0000
                Re: Linux 2.6.39.1 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size in both directions Andy Furniss <spam@andyfurniss.entadsl.com> - 2011-05-29 11:11 +0100
                Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl.invlalid> - 2011-05-23 08:13 +0200
    Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7 - Wrong Maximum Segment Size being advertised Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-05-22 00:44 -0400

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