[AusNOG] Are there any other providers who use M2 as an upstream having issues with SSL based websites?

[Cody Appleby]

Confirmed. Very annoying. Customers unable to do payroll!!!

On 12/03/2010, at 15:03, "Craig Meyers" <Craig.Meyers at citec.com.au>  
wrote:

> The easy solution to fix multiple connections for MTU issues, is to  
> add "ip tcp adjust-mss blah" if cisco kit on a 'central-ish' device,  
> where blah is somewhere between 536 and 1460 depnding on the solar  
> flare count of the day.
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> What it does is that on SYN/SYN-ACK exchange it modifies the MSS  
> option in the TCP packet to force both ends of the conversation to  
> use lower size packets. Thereby negating the deal to modify MTU on  
> kit you may/may not manage inbetween.
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> I know it's a hack, but hey if desperate...
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> -- Craig Meyers
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog- 
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Justin Twiss
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 1:10 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Are there any other providers who use M2 as an  
> upstream having issues with SSL based websites?
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> If so, please contact me off-list – As far as I’m concerned,  
> M2’s response of ‘get your customers to change the MTU on their  
> routers down to 1400’ really isn’t acceptable and this apparently  
> has been on-going since Thursday.  (SSL based websites in particular 
> , banking websites – we’ve had reports of clients unable to  
> access/successfully log in to almost every major bank in Australia s 
> o far)
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> (Just glad they’re not our only upstream provider!)
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> Justin Twiss
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