Key Concept: TCP is designed to restrict the size of the segments it sends to a certain maximum limit, to cut down on the likelihood that segments will need to be fragmented for transmission at the IP level.The TCP maximum segment size (MSS) specifies the maximum number of bytes in the TCP segment’s Data field, regardless of any other factors that influence segment size.

Nov 04, 2017 Configuring TCP MSS on WLC | mrn-cciew TCP Maximum Segment Size is the maximum allowable TCP payload size as show in the below diagram. You can find a nice article on this & MTU in below blog post from Packetlife.net (above diagram from this blog page) MTU Manipulation If client's maximum segment size (MSS) in a TCP … lwIP: TCP - non-GNU TCP_CALCULATE_EFF_SEND_MSS: "The maximum size of a segment that TCP really sends, the 'effective send MSS,' MUST be the smaller of the send MSS (which reflects the available reassembly buffer size at the remote host) and the largest size permitted by the IP layer" (RFC 1122) Setting this to 1 enables code that checks TCP_MSS against the MTU of the netif used for a connection and limits the MSS TCP MSS values - what's changed? | APNIC Blog

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Jan 03, 2017 The TCP/IP Guide - TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS) and Key Concept: TCP is designed to restrict the size of the segments it sends to a certain maximum limit, to cut down on the likelihood that segments will need to be fragmented for transmission at the IP level.The TCP maximum segment size (MSS) specifies the maximum number of bytes in the TCP segment’s Data field, regardless of any other factors that influence segment size. How MTU and MSS Affect You Network | Network Direction As mentioned earlier, the MSS is like the MTU, but used with TCP at layer 4. Put simply, the MSS is the maximum size that the payload can be, after subtracting space for the IP, TCP, and other headers. So, if the MTU is 1500 bytes, and the IP and TCP headers are 20 bytes each, the MSS is 1460 bytes.