On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 24 Feb, this message from Serge Rey echoed through cyberspace: -snip- > > 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 > ^^^ > Sure about that value? Not 1462?
yes, it is 462. i've tried a variety of values and nothing worked till i got to under 500. i did see posts about using 1462 and to be honest i erroneously entered 462 but intended 1462. i forgot about the typo due to being overjoyed that galeon was now working :). > > > 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. > ^^^ > Again, this was probably 1500, no? yes, this was 1500 not 500, you are correct. -snip- of informative explanation. > > Now, after this (rather long, after all :-) explanation, questions to > those with this Airport problem: are you using PPPoE (i.e. ADSL or some > other broadband medium) to connect to the Internet? airport ----> wap -----> router ---> isp the router ---> isp is a dsl connection with a static ip. i do static ips on the lan as well. -- Serge Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html Everything is related to everything else, but nearer things are more closely related than distant things. - Tobler's First Law of Geography
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