PMTUDiscovery and ClampMSS with mixed tincd versions

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:40:56AM +0100, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:

> > Currently, i have nodes with PMTUDiscovery =yes and ClampMSS = yes.
> 
> these features were introduced in 1.0.13 correct ??

No. PMTUDiscovery was introduced in 1.0.3, ClampMSS in 1.0.12. MSS clamping is
not doing much in most cases, tinc's ICMP responses to large packets is usually
enough, however there are a few cases (mostly involving firewalls that drop
ICMP packets) where it helps.

> what may happen if I have a network with mixed versions from 1.0.11
> and 1.0.13, where the older daemons do not implement that feature ??

That's not a problem.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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