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authorAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-05-15 03:38:41 +0000
committerAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-05-15 03:38:41 +0000
commitce823177133fc4819905a133ea19cb1d19d359b1 (patch)
tree66315cfca0a2286bbb4295f56bded3e460ef5a1f /sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
parent6641f33fef6e1cfff30446fdf7b45a17eb053213 (diff)
Add comment on input MSS calculation based on previous PMTUD results,
as per TCP-imply IETF WG draft(s). The correct approach is to just use the relevant interface's MTU.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/netinet/tcp_input.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/netinet/tcp_input.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c b/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
index 1ed40938e1b..ee7650e0487 100644
--- a/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
+++ b/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: tcp_input.c,v 1.60 2000/04/28 00:31:48 itojun Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: tcp_input.c,v 1.61 2000/05/15 03:38:40 angelos Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: tcp_input.c,v 1.23 1996/02/13 23:43:44 christos Exp $ */
/*
@@ -2790,6 +2790,13 @@ tcp_mss(tp, offer)
* if there's an mtu associated with the route and we support
* path MTU discovery for the underlying protocol family, use it.
*/
+ /*
+ * XXX It's wrong to use PMTU values to determine the MSS we
+ * are going to advertise; we should only use the input interface's
+ * MTU instead (see draft-ietf-tcpimpl-pmtud-03.txt). tcp_mss()
+ * should be changed to be aware whether it's called for input or
+ * output MSS calculation, and act accordingly.
+ */
if (rt->rt_rmx.rmx_mtu) {
/*
* One may wish to lower MSS to take into account options,