what connection are you using? I have the exact same behaviour with 2.2.x
kernels going through my ADSL using Adress translation. I have to set the
mtu to 1450 to get it to work.
At least, it sure sound lsike the same behaviour. some sites work, some
not so much.
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for several months I had the problem that access to some web sites
> fails mysteriously. This means I never got a reply although the
> servers were reachable with ping and telnet.
>
> Today I did
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc
>
> and suddenly all these sites worked again for me. I use kernel 2.2.x
> (2.2.pre15-19 currently). Some of the affected sites are
> dri.sourceforge.net (in fact, the whole sourceforge.net)
> and support.3com.com
>
> Are these web sites broken? I never had these problems under Windows,
> so this is probably not the case.
>
> Could anyone please explain this? Is there a better solution than
> disabling MTU discovery?
>
> Thanks,
> hjb
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