>Oops... the problem arises when **INside MTU is lower**,
Or Higher I beleive.
>1) HOWTO lower inside mtu without touching WHOLE device:
> in 2.2
> # ip route add internal_client/32 mtu 296
I would think this is a hack at best. I would think that Linux
should be able to do this automatically for either the specific
internal IP address or the subnet as a whole.
>The problem is that almost all stock 2.2 modules ignore TCP EXTENDED
>headers (linux 2.2, w98 clients), so they fail to hack the stream properly.
>Eg: an internal w98 client trying to do realaudio (of course without
> socks5 or another proxy beast).
Ahhh.. a reason! Excellent! I'll add that to the new HOWTO. Any
news from the Linus prompt about getting this new patch set into
the mainstream kernel?
ttyl..
--David
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