Ubuntu and Firefox Browser

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 17:17 -0800, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Tried your suggestion but had to go to /etc/sysctl.conf, It had four commented net.ipv4 sections that I uncommented and added your line with no luck. I have two other Linux OS installed and not one of the three connects reliablely to the internet. So I have to rely on MS Windows as a last resort.
> 
> Thanks for the try,
> Clay
> 
> > I ended up doing this on Fedora core 5 because I was unable to access
> > some sites - but CNN has always worked for me so I'm not sure if this is
> > your issue...
> > 
> > tail -n 2 /etc/sysctl.cnf
> > # hack to fix problems with internet routers
> > net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
> > 
> > or as a command line test...
> > 
> > # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0
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I neglected an important point...

if you execute on the cli

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0

the effect should be immediate but lost at next boot

editing sysctl.cnf doesn't do anything until next boot unless you
reload...

sysctl -p

Craig