[ale] Network issue at hotel

[Jim Popovitch]

cfowler at outpostsentinel.com wrote:
> I'm at a resort in Orlando all week.  They offe free wireless access but I'm having
> a bit of a problem.  I can't seem to use it in Linux.  
> When I fired up NS to log on it seems if I got partial
> pages and partial images but then it would just stop.  
> Any heavy traffic with Evolution and the connetion seemed down.
> Works fine in Windows.  In fact I'm sending you this email
> from WinXP running under VMware on this same laptop.  I
> can not do Ctrl-G and do anything under Linux internet related
> but I can all day under Winders.  Any clue as to why this
> may be happening?  Maybe a stoopid router that can't handle
> TCP/IP packets from Linux?

A couple of thoughts:

MTU: Try setting your MTU to around 1150 and see if things improve.

ICMP: Are you blocking incoming ICMP?  If so, try unblocking it so that
Path MTU works better.  ICMP may also be used by the hotel's router to
determine if the client is still active.

hth,

-Jim P.