From: Michael Holstein (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 11:30:00 EDT
> but I still don't know why mtu can cause this problem
>
Blocking ICMP (specifically type 3,code 4) can also cause this ..
because it breaks path MTU discovery (pmtud).
The first part of this doc helps explain the issue :
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/pmtud_ipfrag.html
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
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