[Techtalk] Can't get to http://linuxchix.org

[David Sumbler]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 November 2004 3:24 am, David Sumbler wrote:
>> For some weeks now I have not been able to visit the LinuxChix
>> web-site, as I reported previously.
>
> Dancer posted this on Volunteers:
>
> "If you are using a late-model 2.6 kernel, you will want to put:
> net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale=0
> in your /etc/sysctl.conf (or equivalent).
>
> 2.6 introduces a new tcp_default_win_scale that tickles many routing
> bugs in TCP streams in assorted hardware. Some of that hardware is
> between nest and the world (I had a hell of a time trying to figure out
> why I couldn't ssh into nest through some routes for a while)."

Thanks - that's solved it!

David

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