Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:20:54 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, eischen@vigrid.com, nate@mt.sri.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: TCP bug Message-ID: <199812021720.KAA06413@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19981202185808.A4604@ucb.crimea.ua> References: <199812021636.JAA06068@mt.sri.com> <199812021647.LAA09094@lakes.dignus.com> <19981202185808.A4604@ucb.crimea.ua>
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> > On my internal network; I can't get to some sites (www.aol.com being > > the best example.) > > > > But, If I'm on the gateway machine - it has no problems getting there. > > > > Thus, I was implicating natd. > > > > And - it so happens; my connection is a SL/IP connection, and my MTU > > is 552. > > Some sites block ICMP and thus break PMTU discovery. Umm, if this is the case, why would we be having a problem with a network segment with a smaller MTU not being able to send packets to a network with a bigger MTU? It would seem to me that the small MTU network connection would be the one having the problems, not the larger MTU network connection. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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