On Monday 11 December 2006 20:56, Sergio Polini wrote:
> Yes, it was OT and very few of you are interested ;-)
> However, somebody would like to know who the killer was.
>
> The original subject was "wlan0 is sssloooow [99% SOLVED]" because
> pinging the Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router worked from Windows but
> not from Linux.
> The answer is: because Windows sends ICMP messages with 32 bytes of
> data, Linux sends them with 56 bytes of data.
> Moreover, Linux IP datagrams have the DF (don't fragment) bit set,
> Windows ones have not.
> On Linux, ping -s 15 192.168.2.2 works.

How did you ever find this out?!  I'll know that's another thing to test when 
an access point is playing up.  I wonder why belkin is set up this way.

Thanks for sharing.  :-)

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Regards,
Mick