From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 11:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05730 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drmemory.fnal.gov (drmemory.fnal.gov [131.225.105.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05723 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rneswold@drmemory.fnal.gov) Received: (from rneswold@localhost) by drmemory.fnal.gov (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA25910; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:39:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981028133925.A25901@drmemory.fnal.gov> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:39:25 -0600 From: "Richard M. Neswold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Christopher J. Michaels" Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to sites with ppp. Reply-To: rneswold@mcs.net References: <35D210C1.DA08CD24@earthling.net> <19980812215745.A301@drmemory.fnal.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19980812215745.A301@drmemory.fnal.gov>; from Richard M. Neswold on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:57:45PM -0500 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/www/pub.key X-Spambot-Food: abuse@localhost postmaster@localhost abuse@fbi.gov Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If memory serves, didn't Richard M. Neswold say: > > > > > On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Christopher J. Michaels wrote: > > > > > > > I have a machine currently running a new install of 2.2.6-RELEASE and > > > > connected to the internet over PPP. About half of the web sites i try > > > > to connect to (including www.freebsd.org) just hang. In LYNX it shows > > > > "HTTP 1.0/OK" and then just hangs. I can connect to ftp.freebsd.org > > > > and www2.freebsd.org without trouble. I appears to be an http thing. > > Hey! Someone else with the same problem! > > > Any other ideas, or any other information I can provide that may help? Okay, the problem has been solved. Apparently, my ISP started using a MTU of 1006 where previous the default of 1500 worked fine. I added a 'set mtu 1006' in my ppp.conf file. Chris, if you're still having problems, find out what your MTU should be. Hope this helps... -- Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rich Neswold | PGP: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 rneswold@mcs.net | F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message