On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:45:39PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
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>
> At this point, I have two ideas : either a problem with TCP connections
> or specifically with HTTP connections. I would first try to connect to
> other TCP-based services such as SMTP, POP3, FTP... If it fails too,
> then the problem is with TCP, likely with some TCP option not supported
> by the router or the ISP. The usual suspects are window scaling,
> timestamps, ECN, SACK, which can be enabled or disabled via sysctl
> variables in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/. Try to enable and disable each of them
> and see what happens.
Blessings upon your house.
root@/deb40a:~> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
now fetchmail works and I can get urls in firefox
Thank you very much,
Mike
PS: I've the biggest grin on my face. :)
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