Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:10:43PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >>In any case, I forgot to mention that I changed the MTU to both of these >>values on the Linux machine and it did not help. Also, according to this >>page: >> >>http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks/MTU >> >>The WinXP machine is configured to the default MTU which is also 1500 there. > > > It may not. XP supports "MTU discovery", where it tries to figure out the > MTU that works. You may have it enabled and not know it.
Linux does it too and it's per routing entry. Since the MTU is low at the next hop there is not even a firewall to make a black hole out of it so it's unlikely to be the problem. You can use 'ip route get <ip>' to see the entry. Baruch ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
