Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] TCP syncookies: introduce sysctl to configure the MSS tables

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:40:57 +0200

Jiri Bohac <[email-masked]> wrote:
> (compile-tested only)
> 
> This patch introduces two new sysctls
> 	net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies_mss_table
> 	net.ipv6.tcp_syncookies_mss_table
> to manipulate the TCP syncookie MSS tables

The cookie MSS table is small to begin with; trying
to find values that fit all possible clients is a losing game.

I cannot think of any scenarios where 2 machines, connected
to internet, could have different mss tables whilst _both_
improving the default values?