From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48BC4A82.4000901@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:03:14 +0100 From: Cyker MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] Kernel bridge not passing some traffic (VNC, embedded webservers) List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Message-ID: <48B5D43E.9060909@gmail.com> It turns out that the issue was caused by an MTU mismatch on the bridge. For some reason, the bridge had an MTU of 1492, presumably something to do with the DSL router it feeds. Because it's impossible for bridges to fragment packets, the packets at the full 1500 size were just being silently dropped. It is odd that so few things on the network were being affected, but that's computers for you :P Sorry for the silly postings; I didn't even consider that it could be an MTU issue since even multi-gigabyte SMB, SSH and FTP transfers were going through!!