Lingyun Li writes:
> It was found on Sun Fire V440 with Solaris 9. NIC is ce and MTU is set to 
> 1500. During the TCP connect phase, the TCP MSS value returned in the SYN ACK 
> packet by V440 is 110. We can't figure out why the value is so small, 'cause 
> in most cases it should be 1460. By using ethereal, we captured the packets 
> for both nomal case (MSS is 1460) and abnormal case (MSS is 110), we found 
> the only difference is: In normal case, the IP DSCP value of the initial 
> connection request from client is set to 0, while in the abnormal case, DSCP 
> value is set to 0x12. We don't know if that's the root cause of getting a 
> small MSS in SYN ACK? If yes, how DSCP value affects the MSS calculation in 
> brief? If no, where else should we look for the root cause?

I don't know of any relationship between the two, but lacking a copy
of that packet trace or some indication of what you were doing at the
time, it's going to be hard for anyone else to investigate the
problem.

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