Title: TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery
Author(s): K. Lahey.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Sep 2000
Length: 30976
This memo catalogs several known Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) implementation problems dealing with Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery (PMTUD), including the long-standing black hole problem, stretch acknowlegements (ACKs) due to confusion between Maximum Segment Size (MSS) and segment size, and MSS advertisement based on PMTU.
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