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Re: pay.gov and IPv6


From: Carl Byington <carl () five-ten-sg com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:03:41 -0800

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On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 11:26 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
And the advertised MSS was what?  On my box I'm seeing 1220 for
IPv6 compared with 1460 for IPv4.  1220 shouldn't see PMTU problems.

  --> 2001:8d8:100f:f000::2d5 syn     w/ mss 1440
  <-- 2001:8d8:100f:f000::2d5 syn,ack w/ mss 1420
  --> 2001:8d8:100f:f000::2d5 ack
  --> 2001:8d8:100f:f000::2d5 GET / HTTP/1.1
  <-- 2001:8d8:100f:f000::2d5 ack
  <-- 2001:8d8:100f:f000::2d5 data...


data is a 1480 byte ipv6 packet:

ip6.header.payload.length = 1440 which is the tcp packet
tcp.header.length = 32 bytes
tcp.data.size = 1408 bytes (http response)


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