From da9fe632f375968f796c35e457f4f786620b2605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ruslan Ermilov Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:25:38 +0000 Subject: A divert(4) daemon to correct requested receive segment size for TCP traffic. --- net/tcpmssd/Makefile | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ net/tcpmssd/distinfo | 1 + net/tcpmssd/pkg-comment | 1 + net/tcpmssd/pkg-descr | 16 ++++++++++++++++ net/tcpmssd/pkg-plist | 1 + 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 net/tcpmssd/Makefile create mode 100644 net/tcpmssd/distinfo create mode 100644 net/tcpmssd/pkg-comment create mode 100644 net/tcpmssd/pkg-descr create mode 100644 net/tcpmssd/pkg-plist (limited to 'net/tcpmssd') diff --git a/net/tcpmssd/Makefile b/net/tcpmssd/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d45debd11e69 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tcpmssd/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# New ports collection makefile for: tcpmssd +# Date created: 17 July 2000 +# Whom: ru +# +# $FreeBSD$ +# + +PORTNAME= tcpmssd +PORTVERSION= 1.0 +CATEGORIES= net +MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL} +MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=ru +MAN8= tcpmssd.8 +MANCOMPRESSED= maybe + +MAINTAINER= ru@FreeBSD.org + +.include diff --git a/net/tcpmssd/distinfo b/net/tcpmssd/distinfo new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6cc7f11a4ebe --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tcpmssd/distinfo @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MD5 (tcpmssd-1.0.tar.gz) = 5917fd99f4d232d4e3f2da07cf198fac diff --git a/net/tcpmssd/pkg-comment b/net/tcpmssd/pkg-comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4d2baefd31f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tcpmssd/pkg-comment @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A divert(4) daemon to correct requested receive segment size for TCP traffic diff --git a/net/tcpmssd/pkg-descr b/net/tcpmssd/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cca66686adb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tcpmssd/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +tcpmssd was written by Ruslan Ermilov based on work +done by Patrick Bihan-Faou . + +tcpmssd is a divert(4) program that adjusts outgoing TCP data so that +the requested segment size is not greater than the amount allowed by +the interface MTU. + +This is necessary in many setups to avoid problems caused by routers +that drop ICMP Datagram Too Big messages. Without these messages, +the originating machine sends data, it passes the rogue router then +hits a machine that has an MTU that is not big enough for the data. +Because the IP Don't Fragment option is set, this machine sends an +ICMP Datagram Too Big message back to the originator and drops the +packet. The rogue router drops the ICMP message and the originator +never gets to discover that it must reduce the fragment size or drop +the IP Don't Fragment option from its outgoing data. diff --git a/net/tcpmssd/pkg-plist b/net/tcpmssd/pkg-plist new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..77dc2e6e553e --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tcpmssd/pkg-plist @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +bin/tcpmssd -- cgit v1.2.3