you are the man :) i searched for the modified MTU settings in the registry, found 'em, kicked 'em. worky, yay... -Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: <dgillett@deepforest.org> To: "Stefan Guha" <safti@safti.org>; <firewalls@Lists.GNAC.NET> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:01 PM Subject: Re: Winroute not functional after AOL (un)installation > 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.] > - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]