Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:06:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Klaus Herrmann <klaus.herrmann@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail & FTP-Upload Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990514100358.10335D-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <99051415090900.00318@salvation>
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Klaus Herrmann wrote: > Hello! > As nobody on the german mailing-list could help me, i'm posting this here. > Maybe you've already had such a problem some time ago, but I couldn't find > anything maching in the archives... > So, this is my problem: > Whenever I'm trying to send an email or ftp-upload a file, and the message/file > is bigger than 1KB, the connection breaks down after the first KB. It does not > matter, which mailserver or ftp-server I choose, it always fails. But smaller > uploads / mails just work, so does ftp-upload of larger files onto localhost. > With Win 95, all this stuph works fine, so the problem seems to be on my side. > > My Computer is a stand-alone PC (AMD K6-2 300, 64MB RAM) running FreeBSD > 3.1-Stable. I've got a dial-up internet-connection using isdn4bsd 0.71 on a AVM > Fritz! Card PCI, I use SPPP. Hope that's enough information. > Anyone who knows what the problem is? It's probably a problem with Path MTU Discovery. Try reducing the mtu on your PPP interface. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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