02-28-2007 02:27 AM
Recently Tiscali upgraded their service and changed from aa5snap to aal5mux. there was no notification of this and I had to figure this out when things fell apart. see:
About 5 days later, problems started again.
While surfing, I only get partial pages downloaded before page freezes. Speeds on downloads at about 4Kbps!. Funny thing though, is that Google search is same speed as always.
Again tiscali insists nothing has changed. I know for CERTAIN I did not change my config.
I plugged in a USRobotics router and another Cisco 827 and I encounter the exact same problems so it is not unique to my hardware. With tiscali supplied speedtouch modem, things are full speed.
speedtouch modem default mtu is same as cisco default - 1500. Anyhow, I played around with mtu settings. but made no difference, also pppoa which I am on, is not susceptible to mtu it seems. However, I do not want to rule this out.
do I need to set max receive unit on cisco to 1500? if so how? it is set to 1500 on speedtouch modem.
Can somebody please advise on where I would start to debug this problem.
Kind regards. attached is config
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 911 bytes
!
version 12.2
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname Router
!
!
ip subnet-zero
ip name-server 212.139.132.22
!
!
!
!
interface Ethernet0
ip address 10.254.0.100 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
hold-queue 100 out
!
interface ATM0
no ip address
no atm ilmi-keepalive
pvc 0/38
encapsulation aal5mux ppp dialer
dialer pool-member 1
!
dsl operating-mode auto
!
interface Dialer0
ip address negotiated
ip nat outside
encapsulation ppp
dialer pool 1
dialer-group 1
ppp authentication chap callin
ppp chap hostname unhappy@tiscali.co.uk
ppp chap password 0 123456789abc
!
ip nat inside source list 1 interface Dialer0 overload
ip classless
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Dialer0
no ip http server
!
!
access-list 1 permit 10.254.0.0 0.0.0.255
!
line con 0
stopbits 1
line vty 0 4
login
!
scheduler max-task-time 5000
end
02-28-2007 07:24 AM
I have seen symptoms like yours solved by adding "ip tcp adjust-mss 1349" to the internal interface. Also add an MTU command to the dialer interface.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1839/products_feature_guide09186a00804247fc.html
02-28-2007 09:38 PM
Ahmed,
SPOT ON!
Is 1349 an arbitrary number, where any range between 500 & 1460 is likely to work?
thank you!
Phil
02-28-2007 10:21 PM
Phil,
I've seen it somewhere on here. I suspect it is the result of trial and error. I also suspect other numbers in the same nieghborhood will work too.
You don't want to set it too low for efficiency reasons.
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