On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Natarajan V <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Akilan R <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Natarajan V <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Set MTU to 1452 and check if the sites load. >>> >> >> Great! That worked. Now, let me try to find out how that happened :-) >> Thanks a lot!
Well, this documentation seems to be concise enough: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/695 The following is what *think* might have happened. MTU is largest size of each packet. The default value is 1500. But seems like this size is too big for some networks. When I observed more closely, some sites just didn't load at all. The othersites (such as thehindu & slashdot), start to load, and they keep waiting for ever. The site has been waiting indefinitely for some content to be loaded from other domains whose routes accept smaller than 1500. That's why some sites stopped loading midway, while others never loaded at all. > > I see. Such pointed tech answers are rare in LUG. Don't you remember that iLugC is one of those rare LUGs where you do get such answers :-) > However this is bad advertisement for Linux. No it isn't. It's just a good documentation for others who might also face a similar problem. > How can something so silly bite you? :( 1. Am not a network-admin, but more of an App Developer 2. I couldn't relate the symptoms with the cause. with regards, Natarajan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
