SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels

Re:SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels by forinti on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:19AM (#18775971)

This is interesting. I sometimes have to connect to a VPN that crashes when something provokes a burst of activity (if I cat a file or even ls a large dir). I'll try this, but 576 seems so low; how did you get at this number?

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Re:SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels by ofiryanai on Monday December 31, 2018 @03:08AM (#18793607)

I remember as the average packet size on the internet. Googling average packet size yields that- https://etherealmind.com/average-ip-packet-size/

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Re:SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels by swah on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:31AM (#18776005)

This is what I want to know - the article doesn't explain. I guess its a number that particular (old?) routers / particular firewalls won't fragment the packet..?

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Re:SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels by forinti on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:57AM (#18776096)

Wikipedia says 576 is the minimum for IPv4. I suppose then that the author just went for the value all hosts should support.

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