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Revert "Increase the default TCP maximum segment size from 512 to 1460."
This reverts commit d190343. It seems that there are systems (probably firewalls) in action which enforce an MSS of 536. Specifically, at research.microsoft.com, port 80, packets seem to be simply dropped if they exceed a MSS of 536 bytes, and no ICMP destinatino unreachable, need to fragment message is generated. While this behavior might be questionable as well, we should not diverge from established standards. This default MSS value can be changed using the sysctl node net.inet.tcp.mssdflt. Mandated by RFC 879, RFC 1122.
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