[fpc-devel] Server availability

[Micha Nelissen]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> There is one known problem: the server is behind a brain dead  
> firewall, which drops most icmp packets (except for ping). This  
> includes the "fragmentation needed" packets used for path mtu  
> discovery (http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc1191.txt).

$ ping -s 1472 idefix.wisa.be
1480 bytes from svn.freepascal.org (62.166.198.202): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48
time=186 ms
1480 bytes from svn.freepascal.org (62.166.198.202): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48
time=256 ms
1480 bytes from svn.freepascal.org (62.166.198.202): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48
time=321 ms
1480 bytes from svn.freepascal.org (62.166.198.202): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48
time=111 ms
1480 bytes from svn.freepascal.org (62.166.198.202): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48
time=87.7 ms

works for me ... so MTU does not seem to be lowered, at least using the
path I use. Maybe you're on a different path that does have lower MTU
somehow? Can you try the same command?

Regards, Micha