[3466] in linux-net channel archive
Re: MTU problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Mon Jun 24 18:50:16 1996
From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 24 Jun 1996 22:07:19 +0400
Michael Lausch (mla@gams.co.AT) wrote:
: That's solves only a symptom. I think that fragmentation, as
: undesireable as it is, should work. Or do you think that the garbled
: IP fragments stem from the wrong MTU? But then they should only appear
: on the PPP interface of the client, not on the Ethernet. Or sonething
: deep in the TCP/IP stack uses the wrong MTU and damages the IP Header
: of the packet. I'm rather busy this week, so i don't know when i will
: be able to continue with more thorough experiments. We still have to
: explore the abyss of ISDN dialup connections with PPP.
Just because MTU problem is more simple :-).
IP fragments may be garbled by hundred of reasons,
but logic driving MTU value is simple as tomato and I know,
that this MTU value is impossible, that make the problem even more simple.
And I hope, that when we understand why it is wrong we easily find final
answer.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
