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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:04:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Johan Larsson <johan.larsson@operax.com>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, "Dmitry A. Bondareff" <freebsd@mmk.ru>, "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Win XP with mpd
Message-ID:  <200211041904.gA4J41fp034476@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021104193831.Y53733-100000@treo.operax.com> "from Johan Larsson at Nov 4, 2002 07:49:08 pm"

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Johan Larsson writes:
> > > For a long time many peoples discussed why Win XP don't work with mpd.
> > > May be you can help us ??
> > > Where I can find working configs ??
> >
> > I've heard of some MTU problems, some of which mpd-3.10 should address.
> 
> It might be MTU problems. But the problem occurs for example when i ping
> the server from the windows xp machine, some pings get lost, some times
> you must issue the ping command a few times, or run it with -t for a while
> to see them get lost. mpd-3.10 does not solve this problem unfortunately.

Try playing with the "set link mtu" and/or "set iface mtu" commands
to manually set the MTU values.

> I might be able to fix some dumps (from ethereal) under windows xp if you
> want it. And of course, these pings getting lost is just an easy way of
> seeing the problem, you also get poor performance obviously.

If you can tell where the packets are being dropped, that would be useful
to know.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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