On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 11:59:54AM +0000, is@Beverly.Rhein.DE wrote:
> : I think windows uses something over 1500 bytes as MTU so increasing  the MTU
> : for the PPP line may be you're only options (besides hacking the kernel
> : to ignore the DF flag ...).
> 
> Is this true?

It is.  Even a big Finnish bank didn't know this and some of their
customers weren't able to use their WWW pages - until some kind soul
(on these lists) explained me how to read the tcpdump output and I
complained the bank about their bug.  My win95 machine has the same
problem - it can't talk to the world very well because it insists on
sending 1500 byte packets with Don't Fragment flag set to true,  Sick,
sick, sick..

  -jm

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