>>>>> "AV" == Aaron VanDevender <sig@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: AV> I was trying to visit the website www.nap.edu (National Academies AV> Press) using my FC6 desktop machine, but firefox just grinds on it AV> indefinitely with "Waiting for www.nap.edu...". I can telnet to AV> port 80 of the site, and it connects, but after saying "GET /" it AV> just hangs, and never returns anything. Broken routers not handling TCP window scaling? Try: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling and see the thread starting at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/13/103 Unfortunately if this is the problem then disabling window scaling is not really a proper solution; only fixing the broken network devices works in the long term. - J<
