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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Berridge Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] yahoo mail not going through Curious.....what OS was the customer running? At 06:22 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Fix and Microsoft in the same statement is the oxymoronic statement of the >century > >I found this out about 2 hours after my post. My setting ended up being >1496. > >Good to know I am not a total idiot for the last 8 years I have been doing >this. > >John > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Berridge >Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:47 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [smartBridges] yahoo mail not going through > > >We have seen this as well. Some observations that we've made: > >o In some cases, the customer was using a Netgear FVS318 firewall. Well, >turns out that the Netgear FVS318 has problems with MTU (max was 1468 >although it stated it was 1500). Netgear has a BETA version available to >fix this. Once we upgraded the Netgear FVS318, the MTU was truly capable >of handling sites like Yahoo. > >o We've seen problems with Windows XP (we haven't figured out exactly >everything Bill Gates is trying to "help" us with yet in the XP >software). The way it does dynamic MTU doing MTU Path Discovery "seems" to >be the problem but we haven't been able to put a firm finger on >this. We've also seen the same problems with older Windows 95 & 98 >systems. The common "patch" is to lower the MTU of the broadband >connection. In all cases, setting the MTU to 832 has worked but there is a >trade-off with throughput. We've also experimented and set the MTU to 1400 >to patch problems. You may want to experiment a little and try adjusting >your MTU down to see if this patches your problem. If it does, then play >around with MTU to see what is the optimal setting for your particular >situation. > >Notice in the above paragraph I use the word patch versus fix. That's >because in my opinion we are patching the problem by adjusting the MTU >versus truly identifying and fixing the root-cause problem. However, >because we seem to have different anomalies with different customers (and >different OS's) we had to employ the patch to at least temporarily "fix" >issues customers are experiencing. As we get more time, we plan to do some >more extensive troubleshooting and data capture/analysis so that we can >identify the root-cause problem(s) and come up with a true fix. > >Hope this helps. > > > > >Jack > > > > >At 11:55 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >OK > > > > anyone else have the issue of Yahoo site. Not the search site, > > but the mail > >and chat sites. > > > >John > > > >The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > >smartBridges <yournickname> > >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > >smartBridges) > >Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > >The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe >smartBridges <yournickname> >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe >smartBridges) >Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > >The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe >smartBridges <yournickname> >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe >smartBridges) >Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
