On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Ville Herva wrote: > Seems that your MTU idea was good. I did > > # ifconfig eth0 <ip> netmask 255.255.255.248 mtu 750 up > > and was unable to reproduce the problem anymore. Then I retried with > MTU=1500, and it would happen again every now and then. Then I tried 1000, > 1400, 1450 and finally 1480 -- all of which seemed to work. Retried with > 1500 -- hangs happened again. I've no set the MTU to 1480 (which I gather > shouldn't impose great performance penalty), but I'm still baffled what is > the actual problem. Some device between the server and your station is using a smaller MTU than the default, but Path-MTU discovery is not working properly, most likely because of a firewall infront of the server dropping ICMP Must Fragment messages. Regards Henrik - : 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
