On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:45:39PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: <snip> > > At this point, I have two ideas : either a problem with TCP connections > or specifically with HTTP connections. I would first try to connect to > other TCP-based services such as SMTP, POP3, FTP... If it fails too, > then the problem is with TCP, likely with some TCP option not supported > by the router or the ISP. The usual suspects are window scaling, > timestamps, ECN, SACK, which can be enabled or disabled via sysctl > variables in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/. Try to enable and disable each of them > and see what happens.
Blessings upon your house. root@/deb40a:~> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn now fetchmail works and I can get urls in firefox Thank you very much, Mike PS: I've the biggest grin on my face. :) -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213070459.GA4674@playground