Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
First of all I'm getting icmp losses even if I use a test LAN to make a
tunnel to the local FBSD machine, but these don't seem to affect my
transfer rate when trying to get a large file via HTTP from the same
machine.
I have just merged small pptp windowing related patch to 6-STABLE, you
can try it. Also you can try to disable windowing completely in mpd
config, it is not really needed
What bothers me most is that some sites (like msn.com, microsoft.com,
etc) don't seem to be loading.
What I first thought about was the mss problem and so I discovered the
following:
22:54:36.633254 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 14254, offset 0, flags [DF],
proto: ICMP (1), length: 56) FBSD-IP > 207.68.183.32: ICMP FBSD-IP
unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1336), length 36
It is widely known problem whith broken PMTUD at Microsoft. They filter
that ICMP packets.
In my config file I have:
set iface mtu 1500
set link mtu 1440
There is no need to specify both. Mpd will calculate iface mtu based on
link mtu. iface mtu will be used only as upper limit.
set iface enable tcpmssfix
Actually that should help, but it is strange to see "need to frag (mtu
1336)" in you tcpdump. 1336 looks too small to me. What MTUs do you have
around at the interfaces?
My full config is posted here:
http://pastebin.com/m66a3c05f
My system:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p17
MPD 4.1
MPD 4.2.2 was released some time ago.
I played a bit with the above mentioned values with no luck unfortunately.
I'm still wondering (don't know if I'm right) if a too large packet
comes from 207.68.183.32 why doesn't it get fragmented upon being sent
via ng0 -> pptp1 and instead of this happening my machine sends an ICMP
unreachable back.
TCP packets usually have DF flag set which denies fragmentation. You can
enable multilink PPP feature, it will give you complete 1500 bytes MTU
and will process fragmentation by itself, but it will lead to bigger
overhead and probably some lower peak performance.
--
Alexander Motin
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