Subject: Re: MSS clamping proposal
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2002 15:48:44
Hiya folks,
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:13:11PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Thus, MSS clamping should not be tied to NAT.
>
> Ok, maybe not. I'm probably biased as I myself only need it on NAT routers.
>
> Furthermore I believe routers never should touch anything beyound the IP
> header. NAT already breaks this law.
>
> If the majority here believes otherwise I'll move the clamping over to
> the ip_output proper and add a "mssclamp" option to route(8), similar to the
> -mtu option.
looks a good place yes.... or (also) as an extra option to a network
interface? there the mtu option allready specified anyway ... why wouldn't
be possible to just ifconfig it ? even if its an ethernet interface? and
why would each ethernet driver interface need explicit support?
Cheers,
Reinoud