On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:05:05AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:09:35AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > > i tried this last night on my tibook. upgraded OS X and the airport > > firmware went from 8.4 to 8.7. > > > > however, booting back into linux i see the browsing problem with some > > pages not loading still remains. (and the firmware is 8.7 according to > > dmesg). > > So if I understand correctly the remaining issue is the one I described. yes, i think it is. > > The best explanation I have found for this problem is related to MSS > clamping [1]. This could explain why not everybody is seeing the > problem. The symptoms are the same but it is difficult to explain why it > occurs only when encryption is turned on. > > [1] http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymzh666/solaris/mss.html great link. this lead me to poke around some more and one of the suggestions i came across was to tweak the mtu setting. so here is what i did ifconfig eth1 mtu 462 and galeon is loading all the pages just fine now. perhaps someone who knows networks better than i (which is a very large population) could help explain why this setting seems to have done the trick with the airport card. i should note that before this change, the default mtu assigned was 500. -- Serge Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. -- Gordon Allport
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