Ken.McAllister wrote:
Both problems (not sending email with more than a few words, and not
receiving secure web pages) are apparently solved by taking mtu in
stages down to 250. The original setting (from ifconfig) was
apparently MTU:1500.
I wonder what made the change necessary? Switching from Mandrake to
Ubuntu? Switching from Ubuntu to Mandrake? I found it very messy and
tedious getting Ubuntu on line (dial-up), although my daughter's
installation had previously gone smoothly.
Try wvdial. Is is cmd-based and has so far worked with the same
configuration under SuSE 9.2, Gentoo, Debian and Knoppix. Tools like
this are very usefull if you are often switching your distribution or
are running multiple distros like me.
I wonder why Telstra Clear didn't suggest MTU to me? Perhaps they would
have if they'd known.
Thanks again Nick and Jim
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Happy Hacking,
Robert Himmelmann
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
-- Lao Tsu
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