Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network Goes on Holiday

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.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.
> 

I tried a lower MTU once when I had masquarading enabled ... I'd read that it 
improved each net connections share of the overall bandiwdth. Okay...some 
things may not have lagged so much, but an FTP data transfer transfer rate 
went down the pan :) So I always run at 1500 regardless...hasn't affected me 
yet.

Chris...



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