[ale] Routing slow on certain sites

Scott A. Martin scottm at noesisopen.com
Wed Jan 19 05:08:48 EST 2005


Jim,

Check out section on following URL about connecting to AOL from a
corporate LAN: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/connectivity.html.

Scott

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 04:30 -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:19:04PM -0500, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > The MTU on the Win box could be too high.  If the inside interface on 
> > the Linux router is less than 1500 then set the WinXP box to match it.
> > Dow
> > 
> I set the mtu on the WinXP box to the same as the Linux box. They are
> both at 1500. The mtu on the pppoe connection is at 1492. When I try to
> load aol.com through the lan connection, it dies without an error. If I
> disable the lan connection and use dialup, it loads quickly. This is
> using IE 6 in both cases. Of course there is no problem loading it on
> the Linux box (router) :-)
> 
> Weird stuff,
> 
> Jim Seymour
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Scott A. Martin <scottm at noesisopen.com>
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