Re: Stumper

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

This would depend upon the direction of the packets that are dropped and where
the broken device is.

If the 1500 byte packets are coming in from the Internet and the Linksys needs
to forward onto a smaller MTU media but finds the DF bit set it will return an
icmp fragment.. if this icmp is then dropped back at the client then you'll see
what you describe.

If the Linksys or device infront of it will allow remove the DF bit from inbound
packets.

Steve


On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mark J. Scheller wrote:

> The Linksys does have an MTU setting, and I've had my users try some lower
> settings to see if it made any differences.  One user set the MTU on the
> Linksys as low as 1200 with no noticeable improvement.
>
> Anything else I should look at?
>
> mS (scheller () u1 net)