[Slugnet] LTA and Firefox

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On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:35 AM, quekky <lugs at quekky.com> wrote:

> I do not have problem with UOB on F8 (other then 64bit IcedTea not
> working and I have to use 32bit FF with sun java)
>
> However I'm unable to load any page on OCBC and all their sites
> (FFP/Finatiq) on any ISP (I've tested singnet/pacnet/starhub and even
> from the datacenter in Singtel building) I did try a simple wget, and
> it only loads 1 packet and the rest is gone. From wireshark, I only
> see 1 packet coming in, the remaining are somehow lost in cyberspace
>
> It seems to be affected either the newer kernel (2.6.xx) or networking
> stack or something else, because even RHEL5 wget also doesn't work,
> same for my friend on ubuntu is unable to load too.
>
> Strangely when I use a proxy (any proxy, be it singnet, pacnet, or my
> own squid) it works fine
>

I previously had similar issues with hdb when accessing it using my own
proxy server.  I eventually traced that to some tuning I performed on the
networking stack, where I'd increased the tcp buffers to something very
large (perhaps 1MB or 10MB per connection) to optimise speeds over high
speed, high latency connections.  Perhaps their firewalls disagreed with my
buffer settings.

HTH, but YMMV.
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