Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: XaAES

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:06:04 -0500, Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:43 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:28:08 , Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> > > To try to dig deeper into my network problems with 1.16
> > > I thought I would try ping'ing my router with different
> > > sized packets.
> > >
> > > Before testing 1.16 I did a sanity check with 1.15.12
> > >
> > > The largest packet that worked was 1472 bytes. Anything
> > > larger and there was no repsonse.
> > >
> > > I am going to try again with 1.16 but I just wondered if
> > > this was normal sort of behaviour for ping ?`
> >
> > 1.16 behaves in the same way so it looks like it might
> > be a problem with ping.
> >
> > Peter
>
> Ethernet maximum transmission unit (MTU) is 1500 bytes so I'd say this
> is a reflection of your MTU limiting you somehow.  MTU is 1500 - 1472 =
> overhead which is a small number of bytes.  Perhaps mint ping is too old
> to spread the packet over several ethernet packets???  weird.


I was thinking it might be something like that but couldn't
find owt ont net.

I tried it on an Ununtu Linux box and the limit is almost 64k

Regards,
Peter