FC2 and newest kernel update via yum.

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 21:25, George Avrunin wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion.  ifconfig reports the MTU as 1500 with
> both kernels, so as far as I can tell from the Fedora end, that's not
> the problem.  Is there somewhere else I should check it?
> 
> The filtering bridge drops ICMP (some Windows worm was creating major
> ping storms a year or so ago), so running ping from here doesn't do
> anything.  But I'll check with the computing facility staff tomorrow
> to make sure 1500 is ok.
> 
>   George

That should be the default.  Normally that is good unless you are using
something like PPPOE which ads its own overhead and can cause packet
fragmentation.

Worth checking.

But from some of your other tests it sounds like a kernel issue.

-- 
Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>