Hoary / kernel 2.6.9: Gaim cannot connect to AIM/ICQ?

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:19:01 +0100, Le grand pinguin <rm at mh-freiburg.de> wrote:

>> I've tried
>>
>>   # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0
>>   # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0
>>   # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0
>>
>> but that doesn't seem to help.
>>
>> Does that mean that the problem is not a TCP Window Scaling problem?
> 
> Just out of curiosity: how do you connect to the internet - is there
> some PPP over ethernet involved? Could this be a plain ol' MTU problem?
> What does 'ifconfig' say?

I have a permanent ADSL connection -- the router does the negotiation.

Ifconfig says:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:x.x.x.x  Bcast:x.x.x.x  Mask:x.x.x.x
          inet6 addr: x::x:x:x:x/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:690713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:661966 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:8 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:241367765 (230.1 MiB)  TX bytes:110451903 (105.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd400

MTU is 1500 (and has "always" been, as far as I remember).  If MTU was
the problem, wouldn't it affect all sites, and not just
AIM/ICQ/Netscape (and a few others)?

Cheers,

-- 
Klaus Alexander Seistrup
SubZeroNet · Copenhagen · Denmark