At 09:20 17/01/01 -0600, Stitzel, Jon wrote:
>We had the same kind of problem and discovered a "feature" in Windows. It
>seems
>that Windows (NT at least, I don't know about 2000) always sets the Don't
>Fragment" bit. We had to lower the MTU on our firewalls to accommodate this,
>since our NT guys said we couldn't set a static MTU on the servers.
MS guys can't just recompile BSD sockets, they need to put in their
revolutionay
ideas. don't laugh, these are revolutionary indeed. unable to "think
different",
they code different. and they do it with a style:)
by the way, one of the old bugs in the MS stack was that the MTU negotiation
was not correctly handled by windox. when they received a "proposal" for an
MTU,
they "accepted", but they were just droping the extrabytes (their "real"
MTU was
1024). This bug was supposedly corrected a long time ago, but who knows. they
may have made the old new:)
cheers,
mouss
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