On 2002.02.12 20:51, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> Is there any easy way to change the MTU and the TCP MSS?  I'm 
> (temporarily) stuck behind a broken gateway that is dropping "large" 
> packets, so I want to crank down the TCP MSS.  I can change the 
> interface mtu via ifconfig, but that doesn't seem to change TCP's idea 
> of how large a segment it wants.
> 

There are sysctl settings:

   sysctl -a |grep mss

though I didn't find extensive documentation for it.

Regards
Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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