Re: TCP ??

Marc Slemko (marcs@znep.com)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:50:08 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:

>
> I have a strange problem with Netscape (webbrowsers generally).
>
> When I try to load a certain page (www.altavista.com as an example)
> the browsers says connected and then doesn't load the page at all.
> there is no traffic (this is over 33.6 modem). It looks like both the
> server and the browser are waiting for something.
>
> Lynx has this problem too. While this occurs almost always, sometimes
> the page loads well (but slow).

This is probably some moron in the middle filtering ICMP packets without
having a clue.

See http://www.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/ for a description of what that
causes and how it happens.

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