[H-GEN] Telstra ADSL
Robert Brockway
robert at timetraveller.org
Wed Jun 19 10:00:24 EDT 2002
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> Well, not quite. Its freezing due to the wonders of Path MTU discovery,
Yes, the magic phrase :) It was turning up in relation to this problem in
the doco.
> _A_ solution is to drop the MTU on the ethernet to less than this (say,
> 1000 bytes), _or_ to stop the windows network from getting directly out
I was considering dropping the MTU on the ethernet & the pppoe, but I'll
try just the ether & see how it goes.
> (run them through squid and other semi-transparent proxies).
The windows boxen are already running via squid (no NAT) but even the
Linux box itself is exhibiting the behaviour.
> This problem is much more fun when it suddenly happens to your whole ISP,
Ouch.
> or when someone of importance in another country suddenly cannot get their
> mail from you because of their network stopping PMTU discovery from
> working.
Thanks for the reply Bruce. Food for thought.
Cheers,
-Rob
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