[ALUG] Mostly-OT: Strange ADSL issues

[Mark Rogers]

Adam Bower wrote:
> Can you use tcpdump (or ethereal, or whatever) to grab the entire packet
> on the remote server and also grab it on your local lan and see exactly
> how big it is? 
>   

I'll need some help but in principle yes I can do this.

> Also, is this traffic going over real http or is it being encapsulated 
> in the vpn stuff? 

Real http. I didn't describe things very well: I was using VNC over the
VPN to run the test from the office on my office PC, just without me
being in my office. The http request was from my office PC to my web
server, directly over ADSL.

> I think the first way forwards is both local and remote tcpdumps, if you
> can't work out the answer perhaps putting the dumps online would mean we
> could diagnose a bit for you?
>   

Can you describe in more detail what you need?

NB: I don't have root access to my web server; there's a lot I can do
via SSH to it but its not 100% in my control. If this becomes an issue
I'll see if I can set something else up to test against; I'm only using
my web server as a test because its convenient. The problems are
"global" for me.

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Mark Rogers
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