02-08-2008, 07:59 PM
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 Re: SSL Problems with StayOnline Hotel Internet Providers
On 2008-02-07, Rick Stuart wrote:
> I have been using an HP laptop with Fedora installed at various hotels
> and locations across the US. I have been connecting to wireless hotspots
> with three different laptops using madwifi and Intel drivers and Fedora
> 4 through my present Fedora7 configuration without significant issues.
>
> In October, I was in Maui at a Marriott and could connect to the
> wireless service and bring up Google, digg, and slashdot, but when I
> tried to connect to Gmail, Yahoo-Mail, and my companies OWA-webmail
> connections it just never loaded and eventually timed out. The router
> was in the suite, so I connected via wire and had the same experience.
I had an odd issue with an FC6 laptop on a hotel wireless network where
any encrypted traffic (ssh, https) would hang after a certain amount.
The fix was to turn off TCP window scaling
(echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling). Some googling revealed
that some routers have issues with TCP window scaling - I don't know why
it only affected encrypted traffic in my case, but the fix may be worth a
shot for you.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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