[ale] still trying to figure it out

[elanda at xeme.com (Ed Landa)]

> Whereas on the dump from the machine behind the dmz I see "Don't 
> fragment: Set"
> 
> Now I'm not sure how this might be hosing things.  To be honest, I'd 
> expect that if it was the other way around, it might be hosing things.

Somewhere between you and the destination machine is a link with a smaller MTU.
When the packet with a DF option is received, that router is dropping the
packet and should be sending back an ICMP "fragmentation needed" message.  Add
ICMP to your tcpdump filter and see if that is in fact happening.

Ed


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