Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc

["Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

Yes, but IIRC, I did undo the change some time after we had the problem,
leaving it back to 1500, and I´ve never seen it happen again. Perhaps we
were lucky and did not connect to a broken router again.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
>  > We had the same problem time ago and had to lower the mtu by hand.
>  >  Perhaps detecting too many retransmissions of the same packet could be
>  >  considered a hint
>  >  of this problem and try by reducing at least once the mtu. In any
>  >  case, it´s been
>  >  a long time since we had this problem. I even forgot about it.
>  >
>
>  I think we just got bye with setting the mtu to be some arbitrary 1480
>  or something
>  instead of 1500. It was a bug in some adsl router coupled with another
>  but which was it dropped the packet and did not reported it or the
>  icmp got lost or something. I cannot remember it too well though
>  either.
>
>  --
>  - curiosity sKilled the cat
>
>