I am doing research in TCP-congestion control for one of my classes. I have been running a client server http experiment on my network. I tried running the server code on my private research network and client code on one of the local networks. In order to trace the traffic i had let TCPdump run on the server port. After collecting the results i got some unexpected results. The MSS(maximum segment size) on the local network machine(client) was just 4 and the MSS for my machine was just 8. Both these machines are running Debian Linux (kernel version 2.2.19). I tried looking for the deafult MSS value in the /proc area but it wasnt there. Could anyone tell me if there is any other way to locate a systems MSS and change it ? And also what is the general default MSS on Debian Linux ?
kalpesh
