On Monday 11 December 2006 20:56, Sergio Polini wrote: > Yes, it was OT and very few of you are interested ;-) > However, somebody would like to know who the killer was. > > The original subject was "wlan0 is sssloooow [99% SOLVED]" because > pinging the Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router worked from Windows but > not from Linux. > The answer is: because Windows sends ICMP messages with 32 bytes of > data, Linux sends them with 56 bytes of data. > Moreover, Linux IP datagrams have the DF (don't fragment) bit set, > Windows ones have not. > On Linux, ping -s 15 192.168.2.2 works.
How did you ever find this out?! I'll know that's another thing to test when an access point is playing up. I wonder why belkin is set up this way. Thanks for sharing. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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