MTU problem

[Per Jessen]

Roberto Nibali wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
>> Roberto Nibali wrote:
>> 
>>> The customer is always wrong! Is there a possibility that you do not
>>> fix this using iptables but by adjusting the route mtu?
>> 
>> Does that work for inbound traffic too?
> 
> Good question, I believe not, but then for TCP PMTU there is no
> inbound traffic solely but bi-directional using a outbound rule. Your
> fix was for outbound only as well, right?

Well, the idea was that I fix the MSS during the handshake such that the
client won't be sending me any long lines - which I can't deal with
because the client is also ignoring my ICMPs "need to frag".



/Per Jessen, Zürich