I don't _know_ why, but it appears that some routers inbetween the web site
and your site cannot deal with anything other than 1500. I tried to figure
out the pattern last December, but had to return to actual work.:P
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ed Jaeger wrote:
> > -If you're using a ppp connection you may have to set the MTU to 1500 -
> > otherwise some sites will be mysteriously unreachable from behind the masq box
> > (weather.com and dejanews, for example).
>
> You really saved my live, even though it was not a reply to me I was lucky
> to read it and to find that all the problems I was having that I descrived
> on a previous message were due to that, I had lowered my MTU from 1500 to
> 296 and that seems not to be enough for doing the masquerading.
>
> This seems a little weird anyway, I mean, if the packages sent from the
> original machine fit into that MTU why don't the ones coming through the
> masq do the same? :-???
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Ed Jaeger, CFO
Bohlender Graebener Corporation
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