On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:19:21PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day, > > We're setting up a RH7.2 router on a Bigpond ADSL connection, using > rp-pppoe. We're experiencing a problem that some sites (eg, Google, > Bigpond) load fine on the network clients, but others (eg, Telstra, > Pacific.net.au) only load on the router itself (lynx) or on network > clients that are set to use the router's proxy. Ping and ssh work > fine from the clients. > > We've been able to reproduce the problem on our own in-house (Fedora) > router, by changing the CLAMPMSS setting from "1412" to "no". > However, the CLAMPMSS setting on the new router is already set to > "1412". > > The Telstra DSL guru (yes folks, there is one, and he speaks Linux!) > has suggested changing the MTU size in the pppoe client. > > Where do we go from here? The ifcfg-ppp0 file on the new router has a > MTU="" line: do we set this to 1412, or do we progressively reduce > the CLAMPMSS setting until it works?
Might be helpful to take a dump of the traffic on the router. Maybe the next thing to to try the ping test with do not Fragment and set the size to 1412 and then decrease A > > Edwin Humphries, > Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ironstone.com.au > Phone: 02 4233 2285 > Fax: 02 4233 2299 > Mobile: 0419 233 051 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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