Internet setup

[Phil Cooper]

It's all very well saying "you should change your mtu," but we're not  
learning anything here. What's an mtu, why does changing it improve  
connectivity, and is it the sort of thing that should be  
automatically configured?

  - Phil.


  25 Jul 2005, at 16:54, johann wrote:

> You should try to change your mtu.
>
> try with:
>
> $ ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400
>
>
> And add in your /etc/network/interfaces in the interface section  
> the line "mtu 1400"
>
> Any change?
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2005, at 11:48 PM, David Andrew wrote:
>
>
>> I have recently installed ubuntu and am connected to the Internet  
>> - I can ping web sites etc but firefox cannot connect to any  
>> websites and I cannot use the update manager as it cannot update  
>> the repositories.  Evolution can receive email but I get a lot of  
>> timed out messages.  Can anybody suggest what I need to do?
>>
>> David Andrew
>> --