RE: [squid-users] Why does Squid change the packet size?

Thanks Robert. I am seeing that my squid server is setting the "Dont
Fragment" bit and that each packet has maxed out the MTU for Ethernet
(1514). Is there a setting to change this?

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 4:21 PM
To: Sheahan, John (PCLN-NW)
Cc: 'squid-users@squid-cache.org'
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Why does Squid change the packet size?

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 07:56, Sheahan, John (PCLN-NW) wrote:
> I am seeing that HTTP packets from the Internet that normally contain
> payloads of 1432 bytes, get changed to 1460 bytes when it goes through the
> Squid proxy server. Does anyone know why this happens? I'm not seeing any
> difference when I compare sniffer traces.

Squid retransmits the data, so if squid has more than the MTU of the
squid server available and not transmitted, it will transmit in MTU
sized fragments.

Rob
Received on Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:23:40 MST