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From: Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@cronos.be>
Subject: Re: mangle MSS via tcp_manip_pkt() in ip_nat_proto_tcp.c [patch]
Date: 18 Jul 2003 19:16:18 +0200
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On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 16:57, Michael Glaum wrote:
[...] 
> I tried several things, e.g. pathMTU, etc but in view of severe time
> constraints I decided to HACK tcp_manip_pkt() in ip_nat_proto_tcp.c
> so that when it does source and destination address translation it also
> drops the MSS on outgoing and incoming packets to be below 1360. This
> appears to work. I didn't even bother to check if the packets had
> tcphdr->syn ==1 set.
> 
> Please advise if there is a more elegant way to do this!

Hi Michael,

The easiest way to achieve your goal is to use the TCPMSS target
(that exists in the standard kernel for a long time now) to set
the MSS of the packets going out via the satellite link.

Regards,
Filip