Darren Reed writes:
> The other relevant RFC here is 1122, see section 3.2.2.
> We currently appear to default to 64, which is pretty good.
> That's going to cover 99% of packets IP+TCP header data.
> The real benefit in ensuring that all the IP+TCP/UDP/ICMP
> header data is included. There's not a lot of benefit in sending
> back 400 bytes of HTTP headers because the receiving stack
> just won't use it.

64 is barely adequate if you've got any substantial tunneling going
on -- and oft-times not usable, which is why the newer specs say you
should send back as much as you can.

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