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RFC 879
The TCP Maximum Segment Size and Related Topics, November 1983
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Status:
HISTORIC (changed from UNKNOWN)
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Author:
J. Postel
Stream:
[Legacy]
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC0879
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Abstract
This RFC discusses the TCP Maximum Segment Size Option and related topics. The purposes is to clarify some aspects of TCP and its interaction with IP. This memo is a clarification to the TCP specification, and contains information that may be considered as "advice to implementers".
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.