[Gllug] ssh problem doing my head in

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 05:17, Russell Howe wrote:

> Shot in the dark, but could it be an MTU issue? Maybe a host somewhere
> is silently discarding packets beyond a certain size (or the ICMP
> fragmentation-needed datagrams it is sending aren't reaching you).

I'll have a good look at this. I had tried reducing the MTU on my laptop, 
alone and then also on the router, but it didn't magically fix the problem. I 
also noticed that the router used --set-mss instead of --clamp-mss-to-ptu, 
and tried changing that, but it wasn't the magic bullet either.

> Even if it isn't an MTU problem, I'd still read up on how Path MTU
> Detection (PMTUD) works, and how people tend to break it. It can help
> you understand all sorts of weird behaviour.

Thanks, I will. It's time I understood a bit more.

Regards,
TomSW
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