[wellylug] Re: Can't access linux conf site

[Jethro Carr]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 20:14 +1300, Mark Foster wrote:
> I've trimmed the lines for brevity as my client is trying to wrap them.
> 
> so-3-1-0.cre1.hay.connect.com.au (202.10.4.99) is the first common hop 
> between my route via Global Gateway and yours via Telstra Clear.

[SNIP]

> Also, with a standard MTU, you can do testing with ping, like so:
> 
>      -s packetsize
>                Specifies  the number of data bytes to be sent.  The 
> default is 56, which translates into 64 ICMP data bytes
>                when combined with the 8 bytes of ICMP header data.
> 
> 
> So you can send ping packets of custom sizes and see where MTU actually 
> comes in to play.


did the ping -s 1500.

I found that the address 203.63.130.250 drops anything over 1400.
Anything below that has around 20% packet loss.

This address is just before the common address.


I'll do some more playing in the morning when I'm more awake. ;-)


thanks heaps Mark,

-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


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