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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:11:20 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Audsin <dev.dhas@kcl.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing the Maximum Segment Size (MSS) of Kame MIP6 FreeBSD4.4
Message-ID:  <3E385188.F3404260@mindspring.com>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030129102140.00ae60a0@pop2.kcl.ac.uk>

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Audsin wrote:
> I am Dev, doing my research in Centre for Telecommunications Research,
> King's college London. My research project involves evaluating the
> performance of MIP6 TCP in the presence of fragmentation and without
> fragmentation. I am  using Kame MIP6 for Free BSD 4.4 and have configured
> gif0 interface for ipv6ip tunnel. I wish to change the Maximum segment size
> of the TCP. Can you please help me , where i should change the MSS of the
> TCP. Can you tell me where the default size of the MSS mentioned?

	man ifconfig<cr>
	/mtu<cr>

It sounds like you are trying to do something you don't have an
idea of how to do.  In general, this isn't a bad thing for a
student to do, but you should probably read the source code and
the RFC's and understand them well enough that you understand the
effect of an intermediate MTU on the MSS, and what the MSS is vs.
your trying to throttle it, and how one effects the other.

My hunch is that you are wanting to have an intermediate link that
is a fragmentation bottleneck, given what you say you are studying.

Don't expect a lot of help from these lists until after you are
asking questions that indicate you've read the standards and the
current code.

-- Terry

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