Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network Goes on Holiday

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> "The web sites are probably behind a firewall which is filtering all ICMP
> packets (since some dumb firewall administrator read somewhere that all
> ICMP packets are evil). Somewhere in the network path between you and
> the web site, there's a link which has a maximum MTU which is smaller
> than the ethernet default of 1500 bytes."

Ho hum, the old MTU size chestnut. :) Just set it to 576 and be happy.


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