Hi! > It is known that some people have a problem accessing > www.freepascal.org, but unfortunately no one knows the exact cause. > Some people think a certain kind of icmp packets are filtered by the > firewall in front of the machine that hosts www.freepascal.org > (something with fragmenting packets) and that this causes the problem.
Just as an idea: Did you think of ECN problems (Explicit Congestion Negotiation, RFC 3168 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt)? The http://www.kernel.org/ site has a news entry (16.1.2002), which says: --- schnipp --- Please note that kernel.org uses Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), as defined in RFC 3168. Some broken firewalls or gateways may have problem connecting to ECN-enabled servers. Please contact your firewall or gateway vendor for necessary updates. --- schnapp --- So possibly a broken router which doesn't like the ECN bits in the IP header is the cause of the problems. You can disable sending packets which use ECN on your Linux box by echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Bye Hansi _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
