From: Randall Parker 

Mike N. wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:45:31 -0700, Randall Parker
>

> wrote:
>
>> 1) The problem is specific to the Barkto server. I do not see
>> performance problems with newsgroups.borland.com or news.microsoft.com.
>
> Geo:    There's something wrong with the ICMP handling in a router between
> you and me.  On both Windows and Linux, both sides request a Maximum
> Segment Size (MSS) upon connect.   In the middle of a stream, it suddenly
> reverts to minumum MTU (68 bytes), sending one character per packet.  There
> are no ICMP messages from the Linux box, so it must be in the MTU / PMTU
> sequence.
>
>     Is there a firewall, or is news.barkto.com naked on the internet?
>
>     I can't ping news.barkto.com from here, or I could try a manual MTU
> discovery to see what gives.
>
>   [Randall, I'm on DSL - are you on DSL also?   The ATM packet size could
> have an effect on our problem]

Mike,

Yes, I'm on Verizon DSL. Can we tweak packet sizes?

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