[Gllug] Connection reset by peer

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Thu Jun 16 17:19:41 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:50:36PM +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> vnc and ssh are pretty much unusable for me, sessions keep breaking with
> the error "Connection reset by peer". It must be to do with my network
> setup, but'm having problems pinning it down. 
> 
> One computer connects to an ADSL router, and then acts as a gateway for
> another network, using NAT. The computer that's directly connected to
> the router doesn't have problems with ssh or vnc, but it's a headless
> relic and no use for vnc (which is most useful to me) - it's the
> computers that use the relic as a gateway that have problems.
> 
> I've tried using ethereal to hunt down the problem, but don't really
> know what I'm looking for. Nothing jumped out at me (I was sort of
> hoping for a great big "connection reset by peer here")
> 
> Any hints most gratefully received...

Try setting the MTU setting on your wireless router to under 1500 bytes (1460ish) .

I had this alot with wifi routers, ipip tunnels and other things going through
a router that truncated packets (evil netgear).

Ian

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