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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 1997 19:21:39 -0500
From:      jc@irbs.com (John Capo)
To:        danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Cc:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), jas@flyingfox.com (Jim Shankland), freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, bvt@mp.aha.ru, robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au
Subject:   Re: I give up! no ideas left.
Message-ID:  <19970209192139.DR04830@irbs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970210093512.427V-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>; from Daniel O'Callaghan on Feb 10, 1997 10:04:38 %2B1100
References:  <97Feb9.125709pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970210093512.427V-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>

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Quoting Daniel O'Callaghan (danny@panda.hilink.com.au):
> 
> Well, that really sounded like it would be solve the problem, but as the 
> traces below show, it did not quite work.  Is there any way to set Don't 
> Fragment in traceroute?
> 

I have a version of traceroute that does MTU discovery.
  
traceroute to nanguo.chalmers.com.au (203.1.96.5), 30 hops max, 8192 byte packets
 1  MTU=8166 MTU=4352 MTU=2002 MTU=1492 davsys-gw.davsys.com (199.182.75.1)  6 ms  4 ms  4 ms
 2  198.211.141.1 (198.211.141.1)  345 ms  338 ms  338 ms
 3  h4-0-mae-west.netcom.net (163.179.232.90)  345 ms  345 ms  345 ms
 4  cpe1.hay.mci.net (198.32.136.72)  348 ms  343 ms  344 ms
 5  core3-hssi2-0.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.70.1.13)  379 ms  380 ms  378 ms
 6  204.70.2.174 (204.70.2.174)  560 ms  398 ms  444 ms
 7  204.70.2.174 (204.70.2.174)  431 ms  375 ms  384 ms
 8  labtam.SanFrancisco.mci.net (204.189.216.150)  618 ms  575 ms  628 ms
 9  bc1-f10-s2-3.Brisbane.aone.net.au (203.102.128.213)  649 ms  636 ms  661 ms
10  max1.Mackay.aone.net.au (203.61.61.129)  913 ms  721 ms  734 ms
11  * max1.Mackay.aone.net.au (203.61.61.129)  720 ms !M=296  733 ms !M=296
11 MTU=296  eros.chalmers.com.au (203.1.96.4)  758 ms *  756 ms
12  nanguo.chalmers.com.au (203.1.96.5)  753 ms  837 ms  763 ms

Tcpdump shows that max1.Mackay.aone.net.au is responding correctly.

19:15:51.031682 max1.Mackay.aone.net.au > irbs.irbs.com: icmp: chalmers.com.au unreachable - nee
d to frag (mtu 296)

John Capo




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