[pptp-server] PPTP and Linux clients - no packets?

David Crooke dave at convio.com
Tue Oct 9 19:17:54 CDT 2001


David Crooke wrote:

>
> Further diagnostic - have made various tests with ping -s and
> different MTU settings, both to and from pipe endpoints and separate
> machines on the server LAN; in every case, the largest packet which
> will pass through the pipe intact is 313 bytes gross size (ping -s
> 285). No larger packets will pass, all packets this size or smaller
> do.
>

Curiouser and curiouser - actually, it only passes every second packet -
the icmp_seq numbers that ping prints out go 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 or 1, 3, 5,
7, 9, etc. - this seems to be independent of packet size, below the 313
barrier.

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