[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[Brian Phelps]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:
> > A vendor of mine hosts a web site that basically drops or times out
> > connections from any Linux machine I have tried:
> > http://www.keydigital.com
>
> The page loaded fine on my system. The page load is slow, but that
> will be the amount of data that it is loading.
>
No, I bet it is only loading part of the page. Try it under MS using FF,
completely different behavior.

>
> My system is Debian 5.0 (Lenny) with Firefox 3.0.6
>
> Firebug reports the initial page load time and size:
>  51 requests  329 KB (0 B from cache)  1.33mins
>
>
> I have had similar issues before where Google loads but other sites
> just time out. Turned our to be a network MTU limitation on my friends
> home network. So try changing your MTU:
>
>  ifconfig eth0 | grep MTU
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>
> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1200
>
> If this works, start increasing the mtu size until it stops working,
> then back it off.  There is probably a better way to auto configure
> the mtu size...
>
> Bill
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