On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:12:37PM -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: > >Knute Johnson wrote: > >> I'm having a weird problem, using Firefox 1.5.0.7 I can't get to some > >> web sites. > > > >Try turning off tcp_window_scaling. > > > ># sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0 > > > >Then retry your stalled connections. > > > >Jay > > That made it work. Do I need to reset any of the memory limits too? > I did find an article that said something about not using more than > 64k. You shouldn't need to change anything else. You might want to send a message to the admin at the hanging sites and let them know their web server or something in their network improperly handles TCP window scaling. Jay
