Adjust Maximum Segment Size?

Ermal Luçi ermal.luci at gmail.com
Tue May 27 18:14:14 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Stefan Lambrev
<stefan.lambrev at moneybookers.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Alexander Motin wrote:
>>
>> Stefan Lambrev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, You can with ng_tcpmss
>>>
>>> Isn't it doable only with ipfw/divert when using ng_tcpmss?
>>> I have and some concerns about performance too ..
>>
>> There are several ways to inject packet to ng_tcpmss:
>>  - ipfw + divert + ng_ksocket. It should be faster then usual user-level
>> implementation
>>  - ipfw + netgraph as described in ng_tcpmss(4)
>>  - use ng_tcpmss directly in some complicated netgraph setup. For example,
>> mpd is able to use it. This is probably the fastest and easiest way, but
>> only for some setups.
>>
>
> Thanks for all ideas.
> I think I'll try the route -mtu feature.
> Looks like easier for implementation and testing. :)
> Anyway it will be good if we have such feature in the base system.
> It shouldn't be very difficult? :)
>
> --

Actually converting ng_tcpmss to pfil(9) should be easy.

Ermal


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