[Q] TCP segment sent is larger than peers advertised MSS

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:44:30PM +0200, Thomas Portmann wrote:
> Why is it that the client seems to ignore the servers MSS?

TCP segmentation offloading in your network card.

So tcpdump is lying to you if you want to know "what packets are really
travelling over the wire".

gert
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