Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Feb 1999 07:52:40 +0000 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: ppp mru/mtu and ip masquerading |
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Hi,
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 05:49:29PM -0500, Dan Srebnick wrote:
> For days I was attempting to go to a http://www.iomega.com from a machine > behind an ip masquerading firewall running kernel 2.2.2. DNS would > resolve, and the browsers would wait indefinitely for a response. > However, I could reach the site using lynx from the firewall. > > My ppp mru/mtu was set to 512 for performance reasons. I wondered if this
I'm certainly not a TCP person, but as www.iomega.com blocks ICMP echo / echo reply, is it possible they've done a stupid and blocked _all_ ICMP including frag_needed (thus clobbering path mtu discovery)?
S.
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