MTU Blackhole problem?

[Charles Swiger]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 7:46 AM, R. W. wrote:
> I'm guessing that this is a path MTU discovery blackhole, since if I 
> set
> sysctl  net.inet.tcp.sendspace=400  the problem goes away. (I presume
> that net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery: 1  means that path MTU discovery
> is already turned-on by default.)
>
> What the correct way to deal with this? Should I just play around with
> net.inet.tcp.sendspace?

Try "ifconfig en0 mtu 512"; replace en0 with the name of your NIC.

[ Try different MTUs, too. ]

-- 
-Chuck