Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 1997 04:04:13 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [2.1.34] IP-masq still broken |
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:24:00 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Snyder <josh@ims1.imagestream.com>
We had the same problem, but with a 2.0.x kernel. The fix was to make sure that both ends of the ppp link had an mtu of 1500.
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> I'm running 2.1.34 with IP masquerading. I've been running > this setup (with previous revision kernels, of course) for a few months > now and it's been working great. The latest problem, however, is that > my masqueraded network cannot connect to www.excite.com (the search > engine) or some of the TicketMaster CGI servers. The SYN is sent but > the data never comes back. It just sits there stupidly, forever. Other > web sites are fine. I can connect to excite without a problem, as can > the masqueraded hosts when using squid on my box (a proxy cache server).
This smells very much of a MTU path discovery bugs. If someone could send me complete verbose tcpdump's of when this bug is triggered I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><
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