On 2003-02-20 16:46, ?? ?? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi,i have a question about tcp/ip stack,could you help me? > when we send a tcp packet with tcp_maxopt(tcp_maxopt = min(my > mss,mss offerd by opposite socket) +length of TCP options,as ecos > does in function tcp_mss() of the file tcp_input.c) to IP,and IP > insert some IP options into packet,so maybe length of whole IP > packet > ifp->mtu,so Ip must fragment this tcp packet,and TCP failed > to avoid fragmenting in host itsself.
> as we know,TCP always avoid to fragment as possible,maybe the > condition above does not occur often,but it is possible. > right? > or wrong,please tell me,Thank you very much! The comment above tcp_mss() says: * NOTE that this routine is only called when we process an incoming * segment, for outgoing segments only tcp_mssopt is called. So, it won't be called for frames created by ip_output() :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
