Re: mss to pmtu clamping partially broken?

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Do you really need clamping? It's a hack, since TCP should do MSS negotiation
> itself. (Of course it may happen that some routers are broken.) But usually not
> for incoming packets.

You never know when you hit ICMP blackholes, broken routers and other
evil things. Better safe than sorry so clamping is the way to go for me.

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