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|    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 :)   
      
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