home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.beos      Underrated early 90's OS, sad it died...      1,512 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 1,474 of 1,512   
   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=F8=A3f?= to All   
   Re: https issue   
   27 Sep 08 09:39:20   
   
   From: snuhwolf@netscape.net   
      
   On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:48:04 -0400   
   Andreas Kohlbach  broke the internets with:   
      
   > §ñühwø£f wrote on 26. September 2008:   
   > >   
   > > I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making the   
   switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running firefox.   
   > > Any ideas?   
   >    
   > It could be that BeOS default MTU is 1500 and some clueless ISPs block   
   > ICMP requests and thus the connection hangs.   
   >    
   > See if you can set the MTU (I don't know how but I guess there is a   
   > config file for DSL where you can tell it so) to 1492 or if that not   
   > works to 1442. You need to start a new connection after you did the   
   > changes.   
      
   I read up on the comments section at bebits where that is the issue. I   
   downloaded a couple of patches to try as well.   
   Thanks :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca