My hunch is that one of the things that the AOL software may have done (and left behind) is to reduce the MTU on the Win2K box from the ~1500 typical of LAN settings to the ~576 typical of dial-up. That should work, if with less-than-stellar performance, as long as winroute has no problem fragmenting and reassembling packets -- something NT itself is reputed to have problems with sometimes. You can find third-party "tweak your MTU" utilities, or you can search the registry to look for the setting and correct it. [Even when Windows isn't involved, the "small packets pass, large ones don't" symptom almost always means an MTU/fragmentation issue.] David Gillett On 7 Jun 2001, at 12:44, Stefan Guha wrote: > hi list, > i recently installed AOL on my windows2000 router box, but soon realized > that winroute pro won't be able to route the AOL connection... > i gave up on that. > so far so bad, no biggie. > > the real annoying thing about that is, that after i uninstalled AOL 6 > Software from the computer, winroute won't pass on TCP packets that are > somewhat bigger than a few hundred bytes or so... > > to illustrate that, imagine the following scenario: > --- > i have a linux box behind that windows firewall/route. > i am connected from the win2k box to the internet using plain dialup (which > worked w/o problems before btw). > > now i go sit in front of my linux box and try to telnet into another box on > the internet. > that works well, until i try to transfer a bigger amount of TCP data, say a > 'ls -l' output. > then suddenly, the connection dies (simply no more data)... > --- > > i consider this behaviour very wierd... > but probably it is a windows registration problem. > > can anyone please help ? > if not i am going to reinstall win2k on the machine. > > -Stefan > > - > [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with > "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] > - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]