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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:29:51 -0700
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From: Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tcp!
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Gorka Guardiola <paurea@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 coun=
ted 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.