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Message 13,229 of 14,669

Barry Margolin to David Schwartz

Re: When are payload lengths greater tha

28 Nov 09 21:59:33

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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article   
   <0f604894-c38b-40d7-8a66-f845d5489453@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,   
    David Schwartz  wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 28, 10:58 am, Barry Margolin  wrote:   
   > > In article   
   >   
   > > Why not?  Where does RFC 793 say that a sender is allowed to ignore the   
   > > MSS option depending on the link layer?  Although MSS is normally used   
   > > to keep segments under the link layer MTU, it could have other uses.   
   >   
   > It's not TCP. It replicates TCP's interface to application level, but   
   > that's it.   
      
   Then how did his tcpdump grab the raw packets and show the TCP header   
   fields?   
      
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   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu   
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