The tunnel only passes through this router though, the ends of the tunnel are elsewhere.
From: Rory McCann Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK MT introduced an auto-MTU option for EoIP tunnels a few versions back - perhaps that's the culprit? Rory McCann MKAP Technology Solutions Web: www.mkap.netOn 3/6/2015 8:03 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Problem found but not understood. EoIP tunnel was traversing (but not terminating on) a CCR that had been upgraded to 6.27. Downgrading FW fixed problem. Problem seems to be related to full 1500 byte packets inside the tunnel. No parameters like L2 MTU seem to have changed between FW versions. Strange. From: Josh Reynolds Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK And if there are things like NAT or routing over RFC1918 space, then it breaks PMTUD ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery ) -- Josh Reynolds CIO, SPITwSPOTS www.spitwspots.comOn 03/05/2015 04:14 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: My max DNS UDP packet size is 512. I assume that's the default. MTUs over 1500 wouldn't affect any traffic flowing through as the device on the other end wasn't able to pass a packet more than 1500 to begin with. I'd imagine what was happening is that your MT was generating DNS requests that were larger than could pass through the Intarwebz. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Glen Waldrop" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 7:06:55 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK I bumped the L2 MTU to 2028, max of that particular unit and set the other side to match, then DNS stopped working. Traffic worked, I could ping by IP but not by name. Of course my DNS server was on the other side of that cable, so a handful of folks were having issues. I dropped the L2 MTU back to default on MT of 1600, improved, but not 100%. I had the DNS max packet size set to 4048 or so, dropped it back down to 1536, started improving. UDP speed tests were all over the map, then would randomly quit. TCP was decently reliable, though not as fast as they should be. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Hammett To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK Packet capture? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "CBB - Jay Fuller" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 5:57:03 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK wow....how did you figure that out? ----- Original Message ----- From: Glen Waldrop To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK I've got one similar to that. DNS doesn't work. TCP works okay, but DNS just absolutely fails. Turns out the Ethernet port is dying on me. I've got extra hardware in the air, so quick fix is a wireless shot from the AP to the ground to the switch that feeds the PTP shots. It'll work until I can fix it properly. What is happening in my case is the Ethernet is dropping packets, frames, something. TCP retransmits, UDP just disappears. Not sure if that will explain your broken download issue, but it is one of those odd problems. Could be the server side is just dropping the connection after 100+ retransmits. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:10 PM Subject: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc. OK > > I can't figure this out, but it seems like the sort of thing someone else > here will say "oh, I know what causes that". > > I've been tracking a smattering of customer complaints about downloads > just stopping, and finally was able to reproduce it. I Googled for large > file downloads and took the first one that came up: > https://www.futurehosting.com/network-test-files/ > and found the downloads would stop repeatedly at the same point. > Different for each file and server location, but the same for repeated > downloads of the same file. For example the 100MB file from Michigan kept > stopping at 8MB. It chugged along fine, then slowed dramatically and > stopped, with no traffic either direction. Yet a ping to the same IP > address never had a problem. > > Note it is NOT the computer, the server, or last mile radios. I was able > to see it going only through backhaul radios and routers, no AP/CPE. And > it works fine with the same computer here at my house on AT&T. > > Tomorrow I need to chase it back toward my network border. I am not > conversant with Wireshark so have not done that yet, am not looking > forward to it. One pesky customer claims to have done that and seen TCP > retries and out-of-order packets, maybe he's right, maybe he is just > misinterpreting the data. > > So .............. what can cause HTTP downloads to stall and stop, while > other stuff like Youtube and Hulu and speedtest.net are fine? > >
