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Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP



On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:56:12PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Christophe Barb? wrote:
> [snip and slightly reformatted]
>  
> > ... There is a few web pages that I can't display when I am wireless
> > and using galeon (or mozilla) (the html page is loaded but it fails to
> > download the images). With the same wireless connexion, Encompass or
> > IE under MacOnLinux doesn't have this problem. But this problem
> > disappear when I use a cable. I see a similar symptom with ssh. It
> > looks like a timeout somewhere. Do you see something like that ? 
> 
> MTU problem perhaps? 
> 
> A relatively quick test could be to decrease the MTU on your wireless
> connection (from the laptop) to e.g. 600 and see whether it makes any
> difference. 

How can I do that ?

> If it is, then using --clamp-mss-to-pmtu on iptables would be a
> (slightly) better solution. Unfortunately I don't know a solution that
> feels 100% correct...

I don't know --clamp-mss-to-pmtu but I know about iptable. Have you a
good url on this?
 
> (yes: I suffered from similar problems in the past...)

Feels good to not be alone.

Thanks,
Christophe

> HTH
> 
> -- 
> Karl E. J?rgensen
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> If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined
> them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government!
> 		-- Mr. Interesting



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