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Re: IP masquerading: what is ``need to frag''?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon May 13 13:18:52 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: raju@dontpanic.indiagate.com
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 09:07:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <153_9605121754@indiagate.com> from "raju@dontpanic.indiagate.com" at May 12, 96 03:49:00 pm
>
> message akin to this when the connection was about to hang:
>
> 202.41.31.247 -> sunsite.unc.edu: 202.41.30.252 icmp host
> unreachable: need to frag
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
That is your machine telling sunsite its using too high an MTU. Im not sure
quite how that could occur in your case as I assume sunsite is arriving on
an interface with a 1006 MTU. Odd
Alan
