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  • From: Ionut Georgescu <>
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  • Subject: Re: [linux-sony-z1] Linux vs Windows Possible Cisco server problem in our institute
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:55:40 +0100

Hello,

sorry to dissapoint you Nicolas, but this time it also worked :-)

2.03M/s from different (linux and Tru64) computers from (an almost) different
location.

bacon:/scratch/george> wget
http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard/sony/rpm/kernel-swsusp2-2.6.7-1.sds.31mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
--20:49:05--
http://sauvy.ined.fr/%7Ebrouard/sony/rpm/kernel-swsusp2-2.6.7-1.sds.31mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
=> `kernel-swsusp2-2.6.7-1.sds.31mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm'
Resolving sauvy.ined.fr... 193.49.36.91
Connecting to sauvy.ined.fr[193.49.36.91]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 43,243,585 [application/x-rpm]

100%[====================================>] 43,243,585 2.05M/s ETA 00:00

20:49:26 (2.03 MB/s) - `kernel-swsusp2-2.6.7-1.sds.31mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm'
saved [43243585/43243585]

Ionut

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:26:09PM +0100, Brouard Nicolas wrote:
> Many thanks to all the people who sent me their download tests
> concerning this problem which help us to understand the problem.
>
> We have 3 successive routers at INED, from the internal network until
> Internet, but if we branch a Linux laptop at each intermediate node, he
> can successively upload to or download from the Internet. It is only
> when we have to go through the 3 chained routers that the connection
> breaks. Strange!
>
> If we don't know yet what is wrong, the workaround consists in setting a
> low mtu on each of our internal Linux boxes (as for the mailing list
> server). Default MTU is 1500 and we set it to 500 by "ifconfig eth0 mtu
> 500". May I ask some of you to test again on
> http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard/sony/rpm with this workaround.
>
> Only a few of you, like Ionut (Ionut is always lucky: able to resume
> from RAM without video_post etc...) have been able to download from a
> Linux box when our server had the default 1500 MTU. What about our new
> 500 setting?
>
> In fact, windows clients do also have a default 1500 MTU, thus linux
> clients ipconfig do have other properties, different from Windows, which
> make our 3 chained routers confuse.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
>
>
> --
> Brouard Nicolas
> <>
>

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