On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > >From: fn...@uaf.edu > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > >>> Ken Irving <fn...@uaf.edu> wrote: ... > >>> > > >>> > A too-big MTU setting can give odd results in some cases. > >>> > > >>> > >>> but how would it change on a running system? > >> > >>It probably wouldn't, but maybe an upstream router could have. I'm > >>just tossing out the idea in the off chance it might apply, given > >>that some packets go quickly and others don't. > > AFAIK the MTU is set by the initiator of the IP connection and any > intermediate router can't change it.
MTU is a property of a link, not of packets; I was suggesting that perhaps a change occurred in the settings of a router through which packets are going. This is probably much ado about nothing, but it is at least easy to test, e.g., by bringing up the interface with a lower MTU, and seeing if the problem goes away. Years ago I had to mess with this to accomodate a (possibly broken) DSL or ppp interface. Some of the symptoms described in this thread sounded familiar, e.g., sometimes things work great, other times slow or not at all. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
