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From: "Gorka Guardiola" <paurea@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/rfc
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:05:00 +0200

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsu...> wrote:
> We had the same problem time ago and had to lower the mtu by hand.
>  Perhaps detecting too many retransmissions of the same packet could be
>  considered a hint
>  of this problem and try by reducing at least once the mtu. In any
>  case, itīs been
>  a long time since we had this problem. I even forgot about it.
>

I think we just got bye with setting the mtu to be some arbitrary 1480
or something
instead of 1500. It was a bug in some adsl router coupled with another
but which was it dropped the packet and did not reported it or the
icmp got lost or something. I cannot remember it too well though
either.

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