Established connection timing out

Darren Tucker dtucker at dtucker.net
Tue Feb 27 12:54:54 AEDT 2018


On 27 February 2018 at 12:39, Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 17:31 -0800, Nathan Anderson wrote:
>> Is one end or the other behind a NAT of some kind?
>
> Both are behind NATs. I've heard this can have something to do with
> MTUs, but not sure.

That's true.  The problem is the combination of paths with differing
MTUs and devices (which can include NAT devices) that do not pass IP
fragments.  This will show up in the non-decreasing Send-Q I described
earlier.

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