From: Chuck Murcko <chuck@telebase.com>
Message-Id: <199607190211.WAA02878@telebase.com.>
Subject: Re: Bizarre problems
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 22:11:05 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960718183408.20433B-100000@neog.com> from "Nathan
 Schrenk" at Jul 18, 96 07:21:03 pm
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There was some dicussion of setting the MTU size on the Windoze TCP stack
to 512 bytes to solve this problem. Others in the group may have better
information.

Nathan Schrenk liltingly intones:
> 
> 
> One of our clients has been having problems accessing a web site that we
> have running on an Apache 1.0.5 server on Solaris 2.5 (with the new TCP
> patches applied) here.  He's using a Netscape for Windoze client over a
> PPP link and some of the image downloads freeze, although not
> consistently.  We upgraded to Apache 1.1.1 (KeepAlives turned off) and the
> problem was not solved, although a Netscape Communications server serving
> the same content from the same machine does not exhibit the problem.  He
> is claiming that it's a problem with our server, that he doesn't have this
> problem anywhere else, and it seems to be true from the evidence I have. 
> I cannot reproduce the problem on any of my local machines, or through a
> PPP dialup connection.  I *really* don't want to put this guy's site on a
> Netscape server, although we have temporarily done so to appease him. 
> 
chuck
Chuck Murcko	N2K Inc.	Wayne PA	chuck@telebase.com
And now, on a lighter note:
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
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