[aklug] Re: Mike B router issue

Quoting Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net>:

> On Saturday 05 September 2009, Royce Williams wrote:
>> Greg Madden wrote, on 9/5/2009 11:42 AM:
>> > On Saturday 05 September 2009, Royce Williams wrote:
>> >> Greg Madden wrote, on 9/5/2009 12:19 AM:
>> >>> Thanks for the tip on poorly behaving routers. It turns out my
>> >>> Linksys WRT54 GL is my conection problem. I plugged the ACS modem,
>> >>> in bridge mode, directly into my box and use pppoe from there. No
>> >>> issues. This is the second router that doesn't do well, with ACS
>> >>> pppoe stuff ?
>> >>
>> >> Could it be an MTU issue?
>> >
>> > i don't think so, tried 1400 -1460 in increments of 8. Tried quite a
>> > few things...
>> >
>> > The good news I put in a new router, Netgear WGR614v8, and all is
>> > well.
>> >
>> > It all started with my smoothwall box , I thought it was nic cards,
>> > etc. so I bought a Linksys WRT54GL, it never worked 100%, now the
>> > Netgear. I never suspected a new router would be the problem,
>> > Plugging the ACS modem directly into my box showed me the problem.
>>
>> If the problem is reproducible with a specific piece of gear, that's a
>> golden opportunity to isolate the problem - and if it can be treated
>> on the ACS side, to do so.
>>
>> Have you sniffed the traffic during the connection? Is there packet
>> loss or errors? In other words, what is the definition of "poorly
>> behaving"? :-)
>
> I was going to try 'sniff' the traffic when I hooked uop the ACS modem
> direrctly to my box, but the problem went away.
>
> Behaving poorly : whenever I maxed out the download speed, i.e. , dl an
> iso or update my Debian mirror, etc ,the connection would drop, and
> reconnect with a different IP address, over and over and over.... ACK !!
> All other 'normal' traffic was okay, I just stopped doing my Linux
> install stuff, bummer.
>
> AFAIKT it was a router problem, i don't know how to investigate what goes
> in that box.
>
> Thanks for all the help, what a list :-)
>
> --
> Peace
>
> Greg Madden
> ---------
Hey Greg,

Just out of curiosity, what is the MTU size on the new router?

Jon

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Received on Sat Sep 5 22:16:29 2009