some websites don't work

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Hello,

I am trying to login to www.ebookwise.com. It works 100% in internet explorer/firefox on Windows XP. But in Gentoo linux it doesn't work.

Can't seem to get around bell.ca either...

Most other sites work fine in gentoo.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

Thanks,

David

[dsd]

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

does that help?

if so, you have a broken router in your path.

http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/

that article may be fairly old, but recent kernels now default to much bigger window scale factors if your system has a decent amount of RAM, so this bug becomes more obvious.
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[beatryder]

[bollucks]

This is the website's fault for not obeying a standard that is over 8 years old, and proper window scaling is mandatory for massively high speed transfers (but not really of any benefit to home users).

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[quote="bollucks"]This is the website's fault for not obeying a standard that is over 8 years old, and proper window scaling is mandatory for massively high speed transfers (but not really of any benefit to home users).[/quote]

I actually read that particular article and tried to use that to resolve me issue. It didn't make any difference, but plugging my laptop into a different network seems to make the problem go away. But the issue doesn't exist for the windows users at my work. It seems only to be the linux users at my work who are affected.

I spoke with the director of technologies and he said that it's openBSD (the router to which I am connected) doesn't like Linux's Window scaling and that he would soon fix the problem.

Thanks guys.

David

[numberxiii]

Hi

I've encountered same troubles at my work (see Internet access trouble with 2.6.18 kernel [SOLVED])... Thanks for your post !

To correct this setting after each boot, I add this line to my /etc/sysctl.conf file :