you are the man :)
i searched for the modified MTU settings in the registry, found 'em, kicked
'em.
worky, yay...
-Stefan
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stefan Guha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Winroute not functional after AOL (un)installation
> My hunch is that one of the things that the AOL software may have
> done (and left behind) is to reduce the MTU on the Win2K box from the
> ~1500 typical of LAN settings to the ~576 typical of dial-up. That
> should work, if with less-than-stellar performance, as long as
> winroute has no problem fragmenting and reassembling packets --
> something NT itself is reputed to have problems with sometimes.
> You can find third-party "tweak your MTU" utilities, or you can
> search the registry to look for the setting and correct it.
>
> [Even when Windows isn't involved, the "small packets pass, large
> ones don't" symptom almost always means an MTU/fragmentation issue.]
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> On 7 Jun 2001, at 12:44, Stefan Guha wrote:
>
> > hi list,
> > i recently installed AOL on my windows2000 router box, but soon realized
> > that winroute pro won't be able to route the AOL connection...
> > i gave up on that.
> > so far so bad, no biggie.
> >
> > the real annoying thing about that is, that after i uninstalled AOL 6
> > Software from the computer, winroute won't pass on TCP packets that are
> > somewhat bigger than a few hundred bytes or so...
> >
> > to illustrate that, imagine the following scenario:
> > ---
> > i have a linux box behind that windows firewall/route.
> > i am connected from the win2k box to the internet using plain dialup
(which
> > worked w/o problems before btw).
> >
> > now i go sit in front of my linux box and try to telnet into another box
on
> > the internet.
> > that works well, until i try to transfer a bigger amount of TCP data,
say a
> > 'ls -l' output.
> > then suddenly, the connection dies (simply no more data)...
> > ---
> >
> > i consider this behaviour very wierd...
> > but probably it is a windows registration problem.
> >
> > can anyone please help ?
> > if not i am going to reinstall win2k on the machine.
> >
> > -Stefan
> >
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