[Voyage-linux] Re: strange route / nat issue

[Rob J. Epping]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Wayne Lee <linkconnect at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> It looks like bigger packets (> 1026 bytes) get lostdropped
>> --
>> GRTNX,
>> RobJE
>
> Hi Rob
>
> With each protocol you run the usable window size for data gets reduced.
> I've not looked at the .pcaps but do you know which device is dropping
> the larger packets?, are you blocking all ICMP packet including the
> "packet to large please fragment" (Sorry I've forgot the
> proper/correct term and ICMP type for that and don't have full access
> to the net at the moment) message.
>
> Have a look at your MTU settings and test to see what the largest MTU
> to can use before fragmenting packets.
>
> Wayne

I fixed it for now by forcing the mtu to 1424.

most important things for now is getting firewalling up.

I'll have a look at this problem after configuring the rest.

THNX 4 the help!
-- 
GRTNX,
RobJE