[geeks] Further info on Sol8 networking problem

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > What scares me is why you would have to. :-)

> Well, maybe I jumped the gun.  For some reason the Solaris 8 machine is not
> properly negotiating MTUs.  My network works just fine with a 1500byte mtu, but
> obviously somewhere past the firewall (or perhaps it is the firewall) there is
> a problem with that size.  Things break somewhere between 1300 and 1350 bytes.

> Perhaps setting the Solaris MTU lower isn't the proper answer though.

I'll go with Pete on this one...  I'm thinking the firewall is set up
poorly.  Is this a masquerading firewall?  If not, dropping ICMP packets
is pretty brain damaged.

--Kurt