Re: NIC?

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 03:30:33 +0000

Marc Lucke wrote:
>
> (This could end up being off the Squid topic & if so my humblest
> apologies).
>
> I run all traffic through a RedHat Linux 6.0 Pentium II 200 solely
> used for Squid. I hijack port 80 request & feed them to Squid's
> accelerator using ipchains.
>
> Some people are reporting problems with large downloads from any site
> either as email or otherwise in terms of them timing out. I no longer
> think this is a Squid specific problem but an hardware/ipchains one.
>
> Can someone confirm my logic?
>
> Pushing it even further, is it possible that it is my nic that is
> generating problems considering it is sitting on a 10/100 switch & it
> is only a poorly 10 mbps half-duplex card?
>
> Any help/suggestions appreciated
>
> Marc

Try recompiling your kernel without PMTU discovery, and see if that
fixes it.

D
Received on Wed Nov 10 1999 - 20:23:40 MST

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