Can not reach some web sites

[A.J. Bonnema]

On 09/19/2014 02:11 PM, fedora wrote:
> I had exactly this problem also: in general, all wikipedia pages were 
> not accessible from here.
> I assumed, like Ed says, that IPV6 is the culprit.
> what I then did: set MTU to 1450, You may only set IPV6_MTU to 1450. 
> This may work as well.
> And from then on, all wikipedia was accessible.
>
> suomi
Hi Suomi,

Do you have an explanation for this behaviour? Why would ipv6 need 1450 
in stead of 1500?
I may try this, because eventually my ISP will be shutting down ipv4, 
although not in the short term.

greetings, Guus.