In article <3D646C49.3020500@ihug.co.nz> you wrote: > hosts have to do path-MTU discovery and fragment their packets to the > correct size before they are sent. one host is probably doing it > correctly while the other one isn't. well, PMTU Discovery is for TCP only. ICMP PAckets are simply fragmented. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html