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    dccp: Leave headroom for options when calculating the MPS · 55ebe3ab
    Gerrit Renker authored
    
    
    The Maximum Packet Size (MPS) is of interest for applications which want
    to transfer data, so it is only relevant to the data transfer phase of a
    connection (unless one wants to send data on the DCCP-Request, but that is
    not considered here).
    
    The strategy chosen to deal with this requirement is to leave room for only 
    such options that may appear on data packets.
    
    A special consideration applies to Ack Vectors: this is purely guesswork,
    since these can have any length between 3 and 1020 bytes. The strategy
    chosen here is to subtract a configurable minimum, the value of 16 bytes
    (2 bytes for type/length plus 14 Ack Vector cells) has been found by 
    experimentatation. If people experience this as too much or too little,
    this could later be turned into a Kconfig option.	
    
    There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data
    packets, hence it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarIan McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
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