RE: Maximum segment size in TCP [7:72030]

2003-07-08 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
A host uses the TCP maximum segment size option to specify the max size of TCP segments (packets) that it can accept. In the case where you have the slow response time, the mainframe is saying that its max segment size is 4056 bytes, which means that it can accept packets of that size (with that mu

RE: Maximum segment size in TCP [7:72030]

2003-07-08 Thread mccloud mike
I have seen a similar issue with a VPN connection. The problem was caused when an NT admin wrote a batch file that did a large FTP across the link every 45 minutes. The large volume of traffic caused the router cpu to spike due to the encryp/decryp load… hence slow performance. I would try to chec