Hello Dave,
Yes, actually there is a known issue with ADSL when using PPPoE. The MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) of each client needs to be set to 1492. This may have been done for you in the background on your windows boxes but since the ADSL client software probably doesn't have a linux binary, this needs to be set manually. Some routers actually deal with this by translating for you, and this would be somewhere in the web or telnet interface of the router. You can use the command: ip link set eth0 mtu 1492 in your startup scripts to set this properly. If this does not work, there is something far more basic not set up correctly.
Good luck
Craig Jackson
On 11/19/05, David Lyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello!
I'll submit this problem here, but if it ought to be directed to
lfs-support then let me know and I'll stop bugging you 8o) Also,
apologies in advance for the vagueness of my question: I don't really
know where to start with it!
In short, my problem is that in some situations I cannot see certain
websites.
In more detail...
I compiled LFS-6.1 on my laptop which I mainly use at university, behind
the web cache that they have. Everything works fine when I'm there as
far as I can tell.
However, when I take my laptop home and use the ADSL modem that we have,
I cannot access certain websites (i.e. firefox gives me unknown host
errors), but I can see others. For example, I can connect to
runnersworld.co.uk, but not google.com.
Even more weirdness comes when I try pinging some of the servers that
firefox won't connect to: I can ping google.com but not www.google.com !
Now, I think that this is an issue with the way my LFS is set up because
when I boot slackware on the same physical connection to the router I
have no problems.
Does anyone have any ideas where the problem in my configuration could be?
Many thanks
Dave
8o)
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