Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server problem

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> I set up squid on a remote system so I can browse the internet from
>> that IP address.  It works but it stalls frequently.  I had similar
>> results with ziproxy.  I went over this with the squid list but we got
>> nowhere as it seems to be some kind of a system or network problem.
>>
>> http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/squid-3-3-5-hangs-the-en
>> tire-system-td4660893.html
>>
>> Can anyone here help me figure out what is wrong?  I'm not sure where to
>> start.
>>
>> - Grant
>
> Just a quick pointer in case it applies to you:  if you tunnel into the proxy
> machine (using ssh, VPN, proxychains and what not) you would suffer from
> packet fragmentation, which could quickly snowball.  In this case try reducing
> your mtu to lower values, than the default ethernet 1500 byte packets, to
> cater for the overhead of the larger tunnelling headers.

I've tried disconnecting from my SSH tunnel and changing the mtu on my
laptop and on the remote proxy server via ifconfig and there is some
kind of an improvement but I can't narrow it down.  I've tried mtu
down to 1000 on both systems but the proxy server still stalls
sometimes.  Any tips for narrowing this down further?

- Grant