Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-08-05 Thread perryh
> 1) create a static ARP entry, this will create an entry to > the routing table i.e. arp -S IPADDR MACADDR > 2) modify the mtu for that destination > i.e. route change IPADDR -mtu MTU Seems to work fine :) One problem with this approach is that a hard-coded MAC address would break if the des

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-08-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 04 August 2008 00:16:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its > > > >> peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- > > > >> so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger > > > >> than that? > > > >> > > > >> I'm t

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-08-03 Thread perryh
> > >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its > > >> peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- > > >> so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger > > >> than that? > > >> > > >> I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem. > > >> In case it m

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:43:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> You can edit `/etc/hostname.foo0' in the Sun too, and add >> something like: >> >> 192.168.1.10/24 mtu 640 > > [getting OT for FreeBSD] > > Are you sure that works as far back as SunOS 4.1.1? Ah! That will not work, you are right

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-31 Thread perryh
> You can edit `/etc/hostname.foo0' in the Sun too, and add > something like: > > 192.168.1.10/24 mtu 640 [getting OT for FreeBSD] Are you sure that works as far back as SunOS 4.1.1? /etc/hostname.le0 currently consists of the single word pluto and it looks as if this causes /etc/rc.boot

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 31 July 2008 01:21:25 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:06 -0500, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... > >> > >> Is there a simple way for a FreeB

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:06 -0500, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... >> >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a >> transmit segment size of, say,

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm t

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:09:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm trying to get around a netwo

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-30 Thread perryh
> >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer > >> to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that > >> the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? > >> > >> I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem. In > >> case it matters, the other e

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:04:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... > > Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer > to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that > the peer will never try to send a packet large

Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:36:34 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:04:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... >> >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer >> to use a transmit segm

setting the other end's TCP segment size

2008-07-29 Thread perryh
> [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem.