Re: [nsp] WCCP and "distant" customers

From: Lincoln Dale (ltd@cisco.com)
Date: Sun Mar 18 2001 - 03:15:23 EST


At 02:17 AM 18/03/2001 +0200, Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Lincoln Dale wrote:
> > it sounds like squid's WCCP implementation and/or TCP stack isn't ensuring
> > that the total packet size (advertised TCP MSS + ip-header size + tcp
> > header size) is less than the MTU.
>
> Gee - Squid has it's own TCP stack ?
>I always thought that it uses the host OS TCP/IP stack - be it
>*BSD,Linux,Solaris or <whatever>

no, squid doesn't have its own TCP stack.

but that doesn't stop it being able to do:
         setsockopt(fd, SOL_TCP, TCP_MAXSEG, ..)
and limit the MSS.

cheers,

lincoln.



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