TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 15
Abstract: 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. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC2923
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2923
Author(s): Kevin Lahey
Keyword(s): TCP

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V. Jacobson, C. Leres, and S. McCanne, tcpdump, June 1989, ftp.ee.lbl.gov EXTERNAL
V. Paxson, "End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (5), pp.~601-615, Oct. 1997. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 813 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 879 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1122 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1191 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1435 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1981 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2001 [Superseded*]
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IETF RFC 2581 [Superseded*]

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