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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Sun, 2004-Nov-28 18:43:47 +0200, Claudiu Dragalia-Paraipan wrote:
>Since the problem occurs only when I connect to the firewall or to a 
>server behind it, I started to suspect a hardware failure. Could a 
>network card cause such problems ?

A couple of people have mentioned path-MTU problems.  I've also bumped
into this problem when playing with VLANs where one end of the VLAN
trunk doesn't support long frames - an oversize packet will get ignored
by the receiver without any error being returned.

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Peter Jeremy