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Friday 17 February 2012

MSS and MTU

Some times my users complain that the internet is slow or the website being access is not possible. The issue turns out to be the MSS/MTU issue.

what is the difference between MSS and MTU?

DP= Data packet
PL=Packet length=MTU= Maximum Transmission Unit
IPHL= IP header length

DP=PL  -  IPHL
DP= MTU-IPHL-----------------------> equation 1

Also, DP=TCPHL + MSS  -------------------->equation 2

where TCPHL= TCP header length
          MSS= Maximum Segment Size

Combining eq 1 and eq2 we have

MSS+TCPHL=MTU- IPHL

MSS= MTU-IPHL-TCPHL

But the minimum header size of the ip header and the tcp header if 40 Bytes.
 Therefore,

MSS=MTU-20-20

Finally we go

MSS=MTU-40

To check the MSS value of a segment in the Cyberoam check step 1 from below link:
http://cyberoamexpert.blogspot.in/2012/02/traffic-for-virtual-host-explained.html

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