Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.0.21: TCP hangs solved by disabling Path MTU Discovery | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:19:49 +1000 | From | Hugues Talbot <> |
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> Derrick J. Brashear (shadow@dementia.ORG) wrote: > : I put back a piece of code that had been if 0'd out around 2.0.16 to get this > : to work with the path mtu discovery, but when I posted the patch as a possible > : fix for the PPP problems I was having, someone else posted that the patch was > : in there because it was making something break on his machine. Who knows? > > As I understand, that piece of code is both harmless and useless. > It can neither repair nor break something. > (FIX ME, if I am wrong)
You are wrong (sorry) in a way. If put back in, the one-liner we are talking about most definitely breaks my PPP. We (I think) all agree that this is strange, and maybe the indication that something else is broken, but what ?
> The most probably you have fatally broken router.
What do you mean ? This breaks the direct communication between my machine and the PPP server at my workplace, which is a dedicated Xylogics server.
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