Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 18:06, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>
>>Christian Vogel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>please don't turn off path-mtu-discovery. It helps your system to
>>>discover the optimal packet size between it and the other side of
>>>a tcp-connection. It normally only breaks with badly configured routers
>>>and/or firewalls and this way you are doing those idiot-admins a favour
>>>by working around their brain-dead settings.
>>
>>It breaks a large number of routers. Sad, but true. Better to do without it.
>
>
> If you switch off PMTU discovery and have a normal ethernet (1500) MTU
> set then chunks of the internet will vanish to you as well....
Could be ...
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:212.238.97.135 P-t-P:194.159.73.222
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1524
Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:32 (32.0 b) TX bytes:47 (47.0 b)
2728 [root:billy.demon.nl] /root # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc
1
I'm doing o.k. with kernel.org 2.4.19. I had to turn it off long ago.
Best,
Tony
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