On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Gorka Guardiola <pau...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had this problem several years ago > with an adsl router (9fans archive may know about this). There was a bug in > my adsl router (which seems to be common, I have seen it since more than > once) that dropped ethernet frames of size greater than 1480 (someone counted > a header twice probably). Linux adapts the > mss to 1480 if there are problems so it works in this case.
Not so much a bug as ATM overhead.