On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:29 -0400, Jesse Cantara wrote:
Hi Bob,
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The issue I'm having is that external traffic is being forwarded properly, BUT that it drops the connection occasionally. It's not consistent (maybe 2 out of 5 downloads from the internet through the router to the webserver will drop), and the connections are being made, so it's not a fundamental configuration issue. It's something more sneaky. I'm thinking that there's something in the kernel or network driver that isn't functioning properly, or maybe a buffer that is becoming full and abandoning the connection?
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-Jesse
Bob Chiodini wrote:
Jesse Cantara wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to figure out a problem I'm having using CentOS on a machine as a router. The short story is: any traffic routed through the router seems to get disconnected at random occasionally.
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Someone recently posted a thread about a similar complaint to the lists recently. IIRC, the [SOLVED] post mentioned a problem with MTU being smaller than some of the packets received at one point, causing fragmentation, and the next step not being to reassemble the packet because of a certain flag being set.
I don't remember which bit the flag was and no little about this, but I remember the general gist.
Maybe your problem is similar?
HTH -- Bill