Host Fedora9, Guest Xp and HTTPS - MTU problem

[dgfullmer]

While upgrading from Fedora7 to Fedora9 I had this recurring problem. To my suprise I had solved it before and forgot! Thanks for the archive! I looked up my previous solution of 2 years ago and it worked after some tweaking.

The environment:

• VMware Workstation 6.0.4 build-93057 using Network-bridging

• Fedora 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686

The symptoms:

• Some secure sites (https) do not respond in any web browser (opera, firefox, IE). Quicken which was working fine under Fedora7 was not working for some secure sites.

The solution:

• http://communities.vmware.com/message/457975

It appears that the host MTU for its network adapter must be as large or larger as the guest's network bridge MTU. Better explained here:

• http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/documentLink.do?externalID=1359

A couple of tweaks:

• Doing a "ip link set pan0 mtu 1500" as suggested in the article is not persistent between boots. However, using the "Network Device Control" widget seems to change the right files to solve that.

Hope that helps,

Glen