On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:00:24AM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote: > When I run some larger rsyncs from the outside > to the inside box I see this : > > Read from remote host foo.bar: Connection timed out > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (465051 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (465051 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) > > I don't think this is an MTU issue, although I don't really know > enough about it to be sure. We're clamping the DSL link > (RP pppoe). The rsyncs are using ssh, and have worked > previously when we had a RH ip-drains firewall in place, but > no redirect (the firewall was also the rsync host). Now we've > got a proper seperate firewall I need to get it working again :)
FWIW, I have seen this several times, and each time it was in fact an MTU issue. You may not have seen it when running rsync from the firewall previously because it could have been using the pppoe interface as its source and therefore adopting the smaller MTU from the start. -c
