Web Browser problems

David L. Bodet ()
Sun, 17 Sep 95 14:29:18 EDT

Has anyone noticed a problem with dialin accounts accessing
certain web sites? In our system, we have noticed that
several web sites, including www.home.msn.com and
www.pcworld.com, connect but hang, i.e. constant wait. After
several experiments, I found that setting the MTU on the
dialin software to 576 or greater cures the problem. The
browsers that have had this problem are Win95 with Netscape
and Explorer, Win3.11 with Netscape Navigator Personal
Edition, and OS/2 Warp with WebExplorer.

Our setup is one Livingston PM2E-20s at two different sites
using Radius 1.16 with the .ppp extension patch. Adding the
Framed-MTU= in the users file makes no effect.
The Portmasters are running ComOS 3.1.3c2. I also tried
ComOS 3.1.2.

Using Win95, the show s?? on the Portmaster says the
connection is running an MTU of 1500. Only patching the
netTrans Registry file in Win95, to specify the MTU, fixes
the problem.

Is this a Portmaster problem or somewhere else??

dlb
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* David L. Bodet *
* Director of Networking *
* Rocket Science Computer Service, Inc. *
* 601 Spaulding Turnpike, Suite 40 *
* Portsmouth, NH 03801 *
* d.bodet@rscs.com *
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