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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:01:04 +0300
From:      Tommi Harkonen <harkonen@mail.teliafi.net>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RTM_LOSING: Kernel Suspects Partitioning:
Message-ID:  <20010411120104.F3172@teliafi.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010326194717.J386@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:47:17PM %2B0000
References:  <20010322124742.A9984@teliafi.net> <200103221643.LAA30673@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010323090102.B9984@teliafi.net> <200103231711.MAA42834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200103231711.MAA42834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; <20010324145154.A27634@teliafi.net> <20010326194717.J386@hand.dotat.at>

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:47:17PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Tommi Harkonen <harkonen@mail.teliafi.net> wrote:
> >Garrett Wollman wrote:
> >> 
> >> Clearly, your packets are not getting anywhere.
> >
> > Traceroute & ping works fine from the box and everything to the box (still) 
> >works and I have checked, double checked and triple checked all settings 
> 
> This sounds like a problem with path MTU discovery not working. Small
> packets get through but big ones don't. This is usually an indication
> of an incorrectly configured ICMP filter somewhere along the route,
> but if that were the case I would expect ping and traceroute to fail
> too.

 I tried lowering the MTU to as low as 400 and it didn't help and I've tried
everything without IPFilter/IPFW compiled to kernel. Two weeks ago I tried the
box again in a different environment and everything was working ok so theres
something fuzzy going on in the original environment. I'll have to dig on the
details later on when I have the time for it. But thanks anyway from the 
support (;

-- 
th

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