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- From: curt@teleport.com (Curt...)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.winsock.trumpet
- Subject: Re: Shouldn't TCPMSS=(MTU-40). ??
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 07:15:00 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <313d3ad8.9250395@news.teleport.com>
- References: <4h2kiv$pn5@news2.cais.com> <llarrowDnq9MA.MGz@netcom.com>
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- llarrow@netcom.com (Lynn Larrow) wrote:
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- > In article <4h2kiv$pn5@news2.cais.com>, jk93@mail.erols.com says...
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- > >But everything i've read elsewhere says it should
- > >be 40 less (I assume it meant exactly 40 less).
- > >Anyone have any idea if those setting are valid?
- > >
- > In general:
- >
- > "THE TCP MAXIMUM SEGMENT SIZE IS THE IP MAXIMUM DATAGRAM SIZE MINUS
- > FORTY."
- >
- > From http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc879.html
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- Another good source of data is the Web page on this topic written by
- Albert P. Belle Isle:
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- http://www.cerberus-sys.com/~belleisl/mtu_mss_rwin.html
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- Al does a nice job covering this topic -- check it out.
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- Curt....
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