guys thanks for all ideas, I got it sorted by replacing the DSL link the client was connected to with another ISP and that seem to have resolved this problem so I believe it was down to some mtu restrictions in ppp or whatever.
cheers, s. >________________________________ > From: David Boyes <[email protected]> >To: chas williams - CONTRACTOR <[email protected]>; Derek Atkins ><[email protected]> >Cc: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>; Antony Mayi ><[email protected]>; Andrew Deason <[email protected]>; >"[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013, 15:46 >Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu problem > > >> the original poster said he was seeing packets of 1488 bytes that were >> failing. >> it is a bit puzzling how you would get this since afs typically not generate >> a >> packet and a very tiny fraction of a packet. >> it makes me wonder if he has a tagged vlan on his host and a switch that >> doesnt support frames bigger than 1500 bytes. > >Me too. That 1488 number is odd. There were several rounds of firmware in the >Dell and HP switches sold in the last couple years that had a bug like that >with silently tossing fragments that were of a certain size or smaller if the >frame size was > 1500 bytes. > > >_______________________________________________ >OpenAFS-info mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > >
