Subject: Re: sendmail message collect timeout in NetBSD 3.0_RC5 [SOLVED!]
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@engine.ca>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/06/2005 19:06:00
In message <200512062345.jB6Njgs25295@eevee.engine.ca>, Alicia da Conceicao wri
tes:
>Sorry for bothering everybody. A simple sysctl fixed the MTU/MSS
>issues:
>
> /sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.mss_ifmtu=1
>
>For some reason the default value was set to zero. Is there a
>kernel config option to have it set to one by default?
>
Why not just put
net.inet.tcp.mss_ifmtu=1
into /etc/sysctl.conf?
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb