Bogus networking

Rob Pfile mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:16:27 -0800


I really dont think the MTU has anything to do with it. if you lower
the MTU, the TCP/IP stack will never generate a packet larger than the
MTU, unless of course the stack itself is buggy, or the MTU is so
small that you can't even fit the IP and TCP headers into the packet,
in which case it probably wont transmit anything.

this is a bug in MOL, if you look back thru the archives samuel has
commented on it. it might even be fixed in the CVS version, i'm not
sure anymore. i believe it only affects the 'sheep' networking; i
think 'tun' works okay.

rob