On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:47:17PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Tommi Harkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Garrett Wollman wrote:
> >>
> >> Clearly, your packets are not getting anywhere.
> >
> > Traceroute & ping works fine from the box and everything to the box (still)
> >works and I have checked, double checked and triple checked all settings
>
> This sounds like a problem with path MTU discovery not working. Small
> packets get through but big ones don't. This is usually an indication
> of an incorrectly configured ICMP filter somewhere along the route,
> but if that were the case I would expect ping and traceroute to fail
> too.
I tried lowering the MTU to as low as 400 and it didn't help and I've tried
everything without IPFilter/IPFW compiled to kernel. Two weeks ago I tried the
box again in a different environment and everything was working ok so theres
something fuzzy going on in the original environment. I'll have to dig on the
details later on when I have the time for it. But thanks anyway from the
support (;
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th
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