Certain webpages timing out

sdball · n00b Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 10 Location: NC

Lately I've been having problems accessing a few web pages, google.com in particular (ack!). For google and the others, any access to the website times out. I though the problem was with my Internet provider but when I just rebooted into windows I could access everything just fine.

I'm running a brand new gentoo installation so I'm thinking that I've screwed up something in the network settings but I'm not sure where the problem could be.

I can resolve website addresses just fine. I can ping www.google.com and have 100% return. I have my hostname set to localhost, hosts file just has the 127.0.0.1 localhost setting. I use a cable router setup to DHCP that has never given me any trouble.

Any ideas?

Lozzer · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject: Two quick possibilities

You could have ecn turned on, not all routers on the internet support it yet.
to check

sdball · n00b Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 10 Location: NC

Arg! Thanks for the suggestions, but neither panned out. Ecn wasn't (and isn't) turned on, and I set mtu to 1024 but still had no access to google.com.

The affected websites that I've noticed are: *.google.com and
ncsu.edu. I didn't realize how integral google is to my browsing experience until I am no longer able to access it!

I am running a new box with the Asus P4P800-Deluxe motherboard (problems of its own there!). But I have the gigabit ethernet adapter working correctly with the sk98lin module.

All websites do resolve correctly in windows2000 and on my wife's iBook.

Lozzer · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject: Packet Dump

Older versions of the sk98lin driver had problems

e.g. see here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/77189 or here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/07/3/70621.

I couldn't tell from the articles if there is a fixed up version or not