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Re: SDH Fiber Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Sep 19 04:16:21 2011

From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: jacob miller <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:17:28 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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It does sound like an MTU issue. Symptoms are typical. Did you try pings e=
nd to end with DF bit set and full size datagrams?



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Leigh Porter


On 19 Sep 2011, at 09:15, "jacob miller" <mmzinyi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> By meanigful traffic I mean traffic like Http traffic
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> Am able to ssh no problem.
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> Most of the clients on the link are using it for browsing.
> However we find that even though they are able to resolve and ping diffe=
rent sites.
> When it comes to opening of the page we have the page reading as opening=
 opening .. but the page never gets opened.
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> Regards,
> Jacob Miller
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
> To: jacob miller <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: SDH Fiber Problem
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> What exactly do you mean by meaningful traffic? ICMP from port to port w=
orks, can you pass TCP? SSH between routers? Establish a TCP session over =
it?
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> Are you using Juniper SRXs ? :-)
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> Leigh Porter
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> On 19 Sep 2011, at 08:24, "jacob miller" <mmzinyi@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I have tried the pings and am able to ping through with a size of 1600 =
with the df-bit set
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>> without the df-bit am able to get up to 9000.
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>> The switched on bot ends hav been set to allow jumbo frames through and=
 the system MTU size and routing MTU sizes are at 1998.
>> The switch is a 2960 Cisco switch.
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>> I have set the mtu on the interface on the end router to 1600 and still=
 unable to push meaningful traffic.
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>> Regards,
>> jacob Miller
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
>> To: jacob miller <mmzinyi@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: SDH Fiber Problem
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>>> I can ping on point to point
>>> I have BGP up and running
>>> When I try to pass traffic over the link my clients are unable to pass=

>>> any meanigful traffic asn browsing is impossible.
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>> mtu?  try various size pings.
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>> filters?
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>> randy
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