Re: [cobalt-users] Strange HTTP Problem

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

INRE RE: [cobalt-users] Strange HTTP Problem:
>
> This problem is almost identical to one we were asked about.
> It turned out the win98 and winME machines on a network had invalid MTU
> values.
> Did a search on Google for MTU Values and found a great note on how to cure
> it.
> As soon as we set the MaxMTU values to 1454 on each of the networked
> machines
> (they were accessing the net via dsl through a winXP machine) everything
> was fine.
> We visited each of our clients with similar networks, updated the mtu
> values and there was always a noticible improvement in access times.
> (And yes, ping, traceroute all showed no error prior to the mtu update)
>

Paul

  Hmmm, would highly suspect that MTU was not the "real" issue there.  Most 
routers fully understand how to "translate" between differing MTU settings.  
The problem comes in with DSL which generally requires an MTU of 1492 or less 
because the packets have to be placed into ATM "cells" to go over DSL.

  Since ping, icmp, traceroute packets and such are really "small", they 
would not hit this limit and would be fine. 

Larry Smith
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