[ale] Stumped by Slashdot and network problems

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 00:22, John Wells wrote:
> Jim Popovitch said:
> > Is it possibly blocked by Norton Firewall (or such)?  What about
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> cookies?  Also check IE security zone settings.
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> Nope....nothing like that.  I'm using Firefox anyway.
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> I've found a few posts on Google indicating this *may* be a problem with
> the mtu being set incorrectly, but increasing/decreasing the MTU/MRU set
> on the ppp0[-N] interfaces created by poptop when a client connects
> doesn't seem to have any effect.
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Try to set the MTU down on the client system (where you are browsing from), 
for the ethernet.  Last time I checked, Linux didn't correctly fragment 
packets when it is used as a router, and the solution is to see that it never 
has to fragment packets by changing the MTU for all clients.  Worth a shot.