mqh@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Hojnowski) (04/05/91)
I'm running AIX/370 with it's built-in ancient BSD 4.3 networking code. Occasionally, it will announce an MSS of around 65496 to sites it connects to on non-local networks. Some of those sites are also running ancient networking code (Ultrix and VaxStations, notably). Those sites tend to panic when we connect to them. We'd like to be better neighbors than that, though I realize that this bug is due to problems on both ends. Is there a reasonably short source patch I can put in our networking code to keep it from announcing an MSS > 32K? I imagine the remote sites are having a problem 'cause they think the MSS is signed and are indexing into hyperspace or something. Just to add to the confusion, we run "gated" on our site. I don't know if this makes a difference or not. Please respond via Email here (this is not an AIX site, so it won't crash you :-)). I don't read this newsgroup regularly. Mike Hojnowski AIX Grunt Cornell University