Hanging Website: TCP Problem?

[Ed Greshko]

Aaron VanDevender wrote:

>> Broken routers not handling TCP window scaling?  Try:
>>   echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
>> and see the thread starting at:
>>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/13/103
> 
> Thanks, Jason. That did the trick. I'll let the owners know that they
> need to fix their router and or server.

Actually, the problem is probably closer to you than to the owners of the
site.  I only say this since I can access the site you mentioned from here
in Taiwan with no trouble at all.

> 
> 
>> Unfortunately if this is the problem then disabling window scaling is
>> not really a proper solution; only fixing the broken network devices
>> works in the long term.
>>
>>  - J<
>>
> 


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