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Re: Network MTU/Fragmentation problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lausch)
Fri Jul 19 21:58:32 1996
To: Garry Adkins <gpa@piranha.ianet.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:56:06 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:08:41 +0200
From: Michael Lausch <mla@gams.co.at>
>>>>> "Garry" == Garry Adkins <gpa@piranha.ianet.net> writes:
Garry> Hi!
Garry> I have a fragmentation problem that seems to have surfaced
Garry> around 1.3.66. It seems to persist even through 2.0.3.
Garry> When using an mtu on a network smaller than the default 1500,
Garry> the packets get corrupted. Two internet sites that are
Garry> unreachable because of this are www.mu.edu, and
Garry> www.webcrawler.com.
I do have the same problem. Using a smaller MTU on a PPP interface
then the MTU on the Ethernet Interface shows the same symptoms.
Alexej Kuzentsov suggested i might be a problem in the MTU caching in
the routing table, but i didn't have the time to investigate further
(the problem is not vital for us because we mainly have leased lines
to our customers with Cisco routers, which don't show this problem).
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