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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:13:19 +0200
From:      Alexey Luckyanchikov <alexl@alkar.net>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird path MTU autodiscovery problem in 4.5-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20020201161319.GA948@alkar.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C5AB477.3000304@tenebras.com>
References:  <20020201125326.GA3036@alkar.net> <3C5AB477.3000304@tenebras.com>

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Hello,

On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Michael Sierchio wrote:

MS> Alexey Luckyanchikov wrote:
MS> 
MS> 
MS> >14:06:48.477578 server.7 > client.1371: . 1437:2897(1460) ack 10001 win 
MS> >65535 (DF) (ttl 64, id 25428, len 1500)
MS> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MS> >Server send packet with size 1500 bytes
MS> >
MS> >14:06:48.682558 router > server: icmp: client unreachable - need to frag 
MS> >(mtu 1476) for server.7 > client.1371: [|tcp] (DF) (ttl 61, id 25428, len 
MS> >1500) (ttl 253, id 2491, len 56)
MS> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MS> >Router say to server that he must to decrease packet size
MS> >
MS> >14:07:04.477857 server.7 > client.1371: . 1437:2897(1460) ack 10001 win 
MS> >65535 (DF) (ttl 64, id 52781, len 1500)
MS> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MS> >But server ignore this information and still send 1500 bytes packets
MS> 
MS> 
MS> What's the result of 'sysctl net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery'  ??  Not that

1

MoS> I can imagine, at the moment, what would set it to 0....

Yes, set net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery to 0 or set MTU on server
to 1476 help. But it is only workaround.

-- 
Sincerely,                                      e-mail: alexl@alkar.net
Alexey Luckyanchikov

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