From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Goodman Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:28:08 +0000 Subject: Re: High uptime linux router works for linux clients, windows clients act strange Message-Id: <54BD4CB8.5030006@yescomputersolutions.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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: > 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.