Ok, after having solved my previous issue w/ how I was handling the
LLC/SNAP headers on incoming traffic (1), I'm encountering another
difficulty. I can ping between the two test systems, and I can run telnet
(to a limited extent). I initially encountered this problem w/ ftp, but my
latest bit of testing has been done via telnet (log in and then cat files
of increasing size). The scenario goes like this:

1) telnet into the "remote" system.
2) start running `cat` on files of increasing size. I can do this on files
of up to 1894 bytes in length. When I cat the 1895 byte file, the
networking layer drops the packet containing it for as long as the remote
side tries to send it (2).

Does anyone here have any ideas as to what would cause this? I'm toying w/
the concept that it's related to the MTU size, but I'm not entirely sure
about that.

Thanks,
Noah


(1) Turns out that I also needed to construct a psuedo header containing
nothing but the source and dest "MAC" addresses, and paste that on at the
start of the packet.

(2) My MTU is currently set to 2024 bytes, although it could certainly be
larger.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to