[j-nsp] Does EX4200 support changing TCP-MSS on transit packets?

[Saku Ytti]

On (2014-02-24 17:17 -0800), Yucong Sun wrote:

> nope:  at least for J-series, it will modify all packets passing through
> the device: check this
> 
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos12.1/topics/example/session-tcp-maximum-segment-size-for-srx-series-setting-cli.html
> 
> espeically the text in the box.  It is obviously clunky, but without I'm
> stuck with a linux gateway with a iptables rule.

I'm really surprised if that actually works. Since does this mean, you cannot
effectively safely set system MSS without side-effects to transit data?
Seems like huge hammer.

I really hope that is documentation error, since over-loading configuration
statement like that seems downright dangerous.

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