Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:04:12 +0200 | From | Andreas Steinmetz <> | Subject | Re: mss to pmtu clamping partially broken? |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Do you really need clamping? It's a hack, since TCP should do MSS negotiation > itself. (Of course it may happen that some routers are broken.) But usually not > for incoming packets.
You never know when you hit ICMP blackholes, broken routers and other evil things. Better safe than sorry so clamping is the way to go for me.
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