[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[Brian Phelps]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> The page loaded fine on my system. The page load is slow, but that
>> will be the amount of data that it is loading.
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> No, I bet it is only loading part of the page. Try it under MS using FF,
> completely different behavior.
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>> My system is Debian 5.0 (Lenny) with Firefox 3.0.6
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>> Firebug reports the initial page load time and size:
>>  51 requests  329 KB (0 B from cache)  1.33mins
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>> 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:
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>>  ifconfig eth0 | grep MTU
>>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
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>> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1200
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>> Decreasing the MTU seems to make the problem worse.  YMMV

> 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...
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>> Bill
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