Thank you for the pointer, this is exactly what I was looking for. I will 
rebase the patch and add RX support.

Thanks,
Miklos
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Good find Mohsin. So it's only missing clamping on RX. I'm sure Miklos can add 
that.

Cheers,
Ole

> On 28 May 2020, at 12:23, Mohsin Kazmi (sykazmi) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Miklos,
>
> May be, it will help https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/15144
>
> -br
> Mohsin
> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Ole Troan <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 11:23 AM
> To: Miklos Tirpak <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] generic TCP MSS clamping
>
> Hi Miklos,
>
> > I see the NAT plugin already supports TCP MSS clamping but it is 
> > implemented only in in2out direction.
> >
> > We have endpoints with wrong MTUs behind tunnels and not all the traffic is 
> > NATed. Hence, it would be very nice to have generic support for MSS 
> > clamping that could be enabled on the tunnel interface.
> >
> > Do you think implementing this as a feature arch would make sense? Then it 
> > would not be limited to NAT or to one kind of tunnel for example.
> > If so, what is the best place? A new plugin?
>
> A bidirectional TCP MSS adjust would be fine.
> Putting it in a plugin is likely the simplest.
>
> I'm unsure if it should be generic or not. E.g. the NAT also needs to adjust 
> the TCP checksum, and it's likely better to do it only once.
>
> Best regards,
> Ole
> 

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