Can't upload files to Internet

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Sep 16 11:06:29 PDT 2005


Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote:
> Hooray Chuck!!!.
> 
> Thanks you very much for your answer.

You're welcome.  (At least once in a while, I guess right.  :-)

> Down the mtu number to 1400 was the key 
> for get the uploading work well in my 
> FreeBSD system. The "default" mtu was
> 1500. Now i can upload every kind of 
> files.

You're probably using either a DSL/PPPoE connection, or maybe some kind of 
PPTP/VPN connection.  You might try using somewhat higher MTU numbers (1450, 
1490) and use the largest one that does not cause the huge slowdown for best 
performance.  You can also hunt down a "path MTU traceroute" utility to 
determine exactly what the maximum value your network supports.

Note that you can put the MTU setting into the ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf 
for it to stick around after a reboot.

-- 
-Chuck



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