I have had problems like that in the past. I have found that setting the MTU and MRU (Maximum Transmit Unit and Maximun Receive Unit) to 1500 Bytes cures it. Clay Mellender ----- Original Message ----- From: "jmarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Basic Linux List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LILUG (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-Newbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 7:28 AM Subject: Why won't my Web Browser connect to certain sites. > Good Morning: > > This has been annoying me and I was wondering if anyone knew the answer. > When I connect to the Internet (through my linux box as a gateway) > sometimes I cannot view certain web pages on five different computers. On > the network where my box acts as a gateway, I have two PCs running windows > 98 2nd and I cannot go to sites such as microsoft, buy.com, linux.com (at > certain times, other times it works fine) and a couple of other ones like > vsttech.com. My linux box running slackware 7.0 and enlightenment is also > unable to connect to these sights using netscape or lynx. I run ping to > these sights and I get 100% packet loss. Every so often, one or two of > these sights (such as microsoft) actually work. > > When I reconnect to the net with my mac, I also cannot view any of these > sights, ever. > > When I reconnect with my other pc that my sister uses, I can surf ALL of > these web sights with no problem whatsoever. She is running windows 98 2nd > configured exactly the same as my other windows machines. The only > difference is that it is not running through my gateway. Is it possible > that my gateway is causing some sort of problem? Why would my mac not be > able to connect to certain sights when my sister's pc has no trouble? > > I realize that this might be unanswerable, but could someone maybe help me > out here. Should I be looking for something? > > Any help is appreciated. > > > John Marr > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
