On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 12:28 -0200, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > Aren't you mixing the endpoints here? MSS is the largest amount of data > that the peer can receive in a single segment, and not how much it will > send. For the sending part, that depends on what the other peer > announced, and we can have 2 different MSS in a single connection, one > for each peer. > > If a peer later wants to send larger segments, it can, but it must > respect the mss advertised by the other peer during handshake. >
I am not mixing endpoints, you are. If you need to be convinced, please grab : https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/723028/ And just watch "ss -temoi ..."