Linux Workstation ADSL Networking Problems at Bezeqint

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Shimi!

On Monday 06 April 2009 16:48:04 shimi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Until recently, everything was nice and dandy, but starting from a few
> > weeks
> > ago (about two months I think) Firefox started to report something like
> > "The
> > connection was interrupted why loading the page. Press the button to try
> > again." and the button then proceeds to load the page. Furthermore, urpmi
> > (the
> > Mandriva networked package installer) sometimes reports that it cannot
> > find packages on mirror.isoc.org.il, only to find them later upon a
> > retry.
> >
> > Another possible hint is that using svn checkout on http-based
> > svn.berlios.de
> > URLs such as http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fc-solve/trunk/ has been
> > taking a lot of time on the WinXP machine (also connected via Ethernet),
> > while
> > using the https:// URLs was OK.
> >
> > I've also had a case of wget -c restarting a file transfer from the
> > beginning
> > because it could not continue it from where it ended on a halted
> > transfer.
>
> I know this might sound weird, but I would try to reduce the MTU to 1400 or
> even 1300 and see if it helps. Start with tehe Linux as it's much simpler
> than in Windows:
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400
>

I tried reducing it to 1,400 and the FF problem persisted. Now I'm trying to 
reduce it to 1,300 and see how it goes.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> -- Shimi

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