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From: Alan Goodman <notifications@yescomputersolutions.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High uptime linux router works for linux clients, windows clients act strange
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:28:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BD4CB8.5030006@yescomputersolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-190b0c06-ba41-4dd0-9fc7-97e4ba60a935-1421685233628@3capp-mailcom-bs06>

Hi Steven

It would be useful for you to explain why you feel that the first router 
was causing issues.

To me this sounds like a MTU related issue at the moment.  Theoretically 
BGP route 1 allowed larger packets than BGP route 2.  Linux boxes 
manages to do PMTU discovery but something prevented the Windows boxes 
from doing this and therefore their packets were dropped.  Or something 
like this...

Alan

On 19/01/15 16:51, Stephan Alz wrote:
<snip>
> So about 2 months ago windows machines (WinXP-Win8) started acting strange, connections got interrupted, webpages didn't load for users. After weeks of investigation into this and going through all the components on our network I finally determined that this machine is the problem so as a workaround I installed another linux box and all the windowses using that as a default gateway right now. It is a workaround what I wouldn't like to leave in place forever.
<snip>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-19 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-19 16:33 High uptime linux router works for linux clients, windows clients act strange Stephan Alz
2015-01-19 16:51 ` Stephan Alz
2015-01-19 18:28 ` Alan Goodman [this message]
2015-01-20 10:04 ` Stephan Alz

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