MPD Issues - Errors and Mysterious Packet Loss

[Michael Bretterklieber]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Dan Hardiker wrote:
> I have since managed to find (on the source forge mpd mailing list not
> mentioned on the mpd homepages) someone else with an identical problem (who
> was advised to install a TCP-MSS patch). It appears that the problem lies
> with XP connected to MPD using a VPN. Actually on reflection - it was you
> who suggested it!
yes I know, but I'm not sure if your problem is the same, but we can
easily find this out:

try from the XP Box:

ping -l 1500 www.yahoo.de

If you get no reply then try decreasing the ICMP packet size (-l switch),
until you get a reply.

> I havent yet worked out how to get mpd into its own log file - have to
> modify syslog.conf I believe. My current all.log file is very very big and
> has lots of mpd stuff in, but would consitute a 10mb file. Is there anything
> in particular you are looking for or would you like me to upload it to a
> webserver somewhere?

vi /etc/syslog.conf
!mpd
*.*                                             /var/log/mpd.log
killall -1 syslogd

>
> Thanks for your help - going to try the patch now, will let you know the
> results.
ok, but remember that this works ONLY for TCP packets.

BTW: MPD 3.15 will have this patch integrated.

bye,
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