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authorMarkus Bukowski <me@mrbuk.de>2022-01-15 13:09:43 +0100
committerMarkus Bukowski <me@mrbuk.de>2022-01-15 13:09:43 +0100
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Add clamp-mss-to-pmtu option and description ipv6
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diff --git a/docs/_include/interface-ipv6.txt b/docs/_include/interface-ipv6.txt
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+++ b/docs/_include/interface-ipv6.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
set interfaces {{ var0 }} {{ var1 }} {{ var2 }} {{ var4 }} {{ var5 }} {{ var7 }} ipv6 disable-forwarding
.. cfgcmd:: set interfaces {{ var0 }} <interface> {{ var2 }} {{ var3 }}
- {{ var5 }} {{ var6 }} ipv6 adjust-mss <mss>
+ {{ var5 }} {{ var6 }} ipv6 adjust-mss <mss | clamp-mss-to-pmtu>
As Internet wide PMTU discovery rarely works, we sometimes need to clamp our
TCP MSS value to a specific value. This is a field in the TCP options part of
@@ -67,3 +67,6 @@
.. hint:: MSS value = MTU - 40 (IPv6 header) - 20 (TCP header), resulting in
1432 bytes on a 1492 byte MTU.
+
+ Instead of a numerical MSS value `clamp-mss-to-pmtu` can be used to
+ automatically set the proper value.