Re: Linux box won't receive files on network

Dancer (dancer@zeor.simegen.com)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:00:11 +0000


Kirk Reiser wrote:
>
> Hi Folks: I am at a loss for what to do next with a networking
> problem which has me befuddled.
>
> I have a linux box acting as a server and gateway between an internal
> LAN and the outside world through a Cisco 675 router. I have two nic
> cards in the linux box with bridging, forwarding, ip_masquerading and
> the like compiled in. The interface to the outside world seems to
> work just fine. The interface on the inside interface seems to be
> able to transfer data to the windows boxes no problem, unfortunately,
> it won't receive anymore than about 10k of data before stalling.

Turn off PMTU discovery in your linux kernel.

D

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