From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 11 14:07:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25453 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25445 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:07:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27859; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:06:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd027783; Thu Feb 11 15:06:38 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA15948; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:06:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902112206.PAA15948@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why did this panic? To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:06:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, lile@stdio.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com In-Reply-To: <199902112054.MAA01500@mango.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Feb 11, 99 12:54:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When the connection was established, the MSS options in the SYN packets > determine what size packet each end may send; I was just wondering if > somehow the other system had negotiated a 2K MSS. Size negotiation is end-to-end. There have been a number of people using a FreeBSD machine as a gateway, dialing up with PPP, and then having problems with end to end communications because of setting the "don't fragment" bit. The -current list archives are littered with the discussion. If this is your setup, then you might want to look there. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message