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RFC 879 - The TCP Maximum Segment Size and Related Topics

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The TCP Maximum Segment Size and Related Topics (RFC 879, ; obsoleted by RFC 9293, RFC 7805)

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RFC 879: The TCP Maximum Segment Size and Related Topics

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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".

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