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Re: My ADSL saga - Updates



Hetz,
any idea WHY they did it? Is it just to break the masquerading setup, or
is there some technical reason (say, if they do a tunnel inside a tunnel
..).
Cause if they did it just because, next they will reduce another 20 bytes
of the MTU ...
Dani

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Well, my good friend Andrei and I sat on my machines and decided that will
> solve this issue - no matter what the costs ;)
>
> So we found out...
>
> 1. Netivision changed the MTU to 1424 - anyone got an email notification
> about this? cause I didn't..
>
> 2. My firewall is based still on kernel 2.2.x - meaning - it won't fix the
> mtu bug which was fixed on kernel 2.4.x - thats why my Linux workstation had
> those problems..
>
> So - if you are connected to Netvision - set your ADSL firewall to MTU 1424.
> Is it based on kernel 2.2.x? then either upgrade it to 2.4.6 (which came out
> today) or do the more pain way - update all machines behind it to mtu 1424 on
> their ethernet...
>
> Fun Fun Fun....
>
> Hetz
>
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