On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:06:08PM +0300, Claudiu Balciza wrote:
> I experience trouble with some inet connection
> Monitoring it with tcpdump I get: "icmp: ip reassembly time exceeded"
> What does that mean ?
Short answer: Some node between you and your target is dropping IP
packets.
Long answer: For whatever reason, you're machine is sending IP packets
which are too long to be sent in one piece and have to be fragmented
(broken into pieces) by a router in between. If you're on a dialup line,
you need to lower your MTU so that you don't send such large packets...
try adding mtu 600 to /etc/ppp/options. As for why some of the
fragments are being lost: there's no way to know, unless you ask the admin
of the network your packets are being sent through.
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