Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:39:09 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xt_TCPMSS: SYN packets are allowed to contain data |
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On Wednesday 2010-01-20 22:21, Simon Arlott wrote:
>The TCPMSS target is dropping SYN packets where: > 1) There is data, or > 2) The data offset makes the TCP header larger than > the packet. > >Both of these result in an error level printk. > >This change fixes the drop of SYN packets with data >(because the MSS option can safely be modified) and >passes packets with no MSS option instead of adding >one (which is not valid).
Can you explain why the automatic addition of a MSS option is removed?
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