Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 01 Dec 1996 20:04:48 +0100 | From | Matthias Welwarsky <> | Subject | Re: PPP-Problem?! A short question... |
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Tuomas Heino wrote:
> netscape does that sometimes on _SLOW_ connections... you might have > wrong MTU or something... (common values for MTU are 296, 1006 and > 1500(default))
This is not a netscape issue, I`d say. Seems more likely to be a congested router dropping frames. Since TCP/IP is an end-to-end protocol, all handshaking about flow control is done between the two peer partners. It's difficult to decide whether the frames got dropped due to congestion or were lost on a noisy line, and if your decision is wrong, the actions you take against it are likely to make things worse ;-)
Try decreasing the MTU setting, but don't go below 296. Try decreasing the number of simultaneous connections in netscapes' "Options/Network Preferences".
BTW this is a bit off topic in the linux-kernel list ,-)
-- Matthias
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