J & J,

It is Telstra ADSL, but I don't think that is my problem, besides, I don't
have a competitive alternative where some of these sites are located.

The server, which is behind a gateway box (which latter has the ADSL
connection), has its MTU set at 1500, but I think the chocking is
happening on the ADSL/gateway box.  Perhaps its not fragmenting.

Most of the traffic is interactive telnet, so the packet sizes are small,
but when the server sends out a largish screenful, or when a print job
goes out from the server, then the problem seems to appear.

rp-pppoe has CLAMPMSS set to 1412 in the pppoe.conf file, so maybe if I
set the MTU of the server interface to that same value it might just fix
things.

Does this make sense?

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> If you're going Telstra-Telstra ADSL, and their routing issues still exist,
> then you're stuffed. :) Basically you have to get on the opposite networks
> to get decent performance at all.
>
> If you're using roaring penguin, you can use -m, plus you can mtu clamp with
> iptables.

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