Hi,
I've been having problems since day 1 with my router... the problem is that some people can connect to my ftp and web server, and some other can't.
well I looked at DSLReports.com and Practicallynetworked.com and I think I found out what was causing this, but I'm not sure if I understand the terminology. It seems that this firmware (1.39) does not allow fragmented packets to go through....
anyway I tried to ping me (yeepie.com) with this command line (the connection isn't even supposed to go to the internet because of the "loopback" feature of the router)
ping -l 1600 yeepie.com -- timed out each time
ping -l 1400 yeepie.com -- worked just fine
... and same thing for pinging www.dslreports.com
Now, I read that the max MTU for PPPoE is 1492... I guess this is a PPPoE standard, not an ISP's restriction, right?
Okay, now I'm confused.... I don't know what to think... I believe the ping -l 1600 should be working for yeepie.com (cuz it doesn't go through the internet) ... because maybe because of PPPoE's 1492 limit, it would not work for a site on the 'net... I don't know, this is only a though.
now, when I try to ping *any* of the machines INSIDE my network, with the 192.168.1.x address, it works for -l 1400 AND 1600 ... but when I ping my router (192.168.1.1), it times out for -l 1600 and it works for -l 1400....... so I guess this means that when I ping yeepie.com, it pings my router, right?
I'm not sure if I understand all this, if it seems to be my router that doesn't handle 1492+ packets or it's PPPoE that mixes things up.
It seems that since firmware 1.37 it stopped acting correctly with 1492+ packets, and I can't downgrade my firmware right now.
SOrry for the mixed up post, but any help is appreciated
I've been having problems since day 1 with my router... the problem is that some people can connect to my ftp and web server, and some other can't.
well I looked at DSLReports.com and Practicallynetworked.com and I think I found out what was causing this, but I'm not sure if I understand the terminology. It seems that this firmware (1.39) does not allow fragmented packets to go through....
anyway I tried to ping me (yeepie.com) with this command line (the connection isn't even supposed to go to the internet because of the "loopback" feature of the router)
ping -l 1600 yeepie.com -- timed out each time
ping -l 1400 yeepie.com -- worked just fine
... and same thing for pinging www.dslreports.com
Now, I read that the max MTU for PPPoE is 1492... I guess this is a PPPoE standard, not an ISP's restriction, right?
Okay, now I'm confused.... I don't know what to think... I believe the ping -l 1600 should be working for yeepie.com (cuz it doesn't go through the internet) ... because maybe because of PPPoE's 1492 limit, it would not work for a site on the 'net... I don't know, this is only a though.
now, when I try to ping *any* of the machines INSIDE my network, with the 192.168.1.x address, it works for -l 1400 AND 1600 ... but when I ping my router (192.168.1.1), it times out for -l 1600 and it works for -l 1400....... so I guess this means that when I ping yeepie.com, it pings my router, right?
I'm not sure if I understand all this, if it seems to be my router that doesn't handle 1492+ packets or it's PPPoE that mixes things up.
It seems that since firmware 1.37 it stopped acting correctly with 1492+ packets, and I can't downgrade my firmware right now.
SOrry for the mixed up post, but any help is appreciated