The answer is the MTU(maximum transmission rate) for the interface ipdptp0 is
set to 1500 by default
which is the the largest possible unit of data that can be sent on a given
physical medium, in this case ethernet.
it appears not to be a problem for most sites(espn and sun not withstanding).
Setting it down to 500 with the ifconfig command corrected the problem for my
ppp dialup connection.
thanks to all who replied:
Alan Orndorff <dwarfie@mindspring.com>
Nate Itkin <Nate-Itkin@ptdcs2.ra.intel.com>
jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk (James R Grinter)
> my original question:
>
> > Sun managers,
> > I have a strange ppp problem using netscape on a sparc 5 running solaris
> > 2.5.1. with a USR v everything 56k modem, all works with with the
> > following exception, when I try to access certain sites (sun.com and
> > espn.com)
> > I cannot get connected, in the status bar I get:
> > connecting to espn.com waiting for reply....
> > connected to espn.com
> > then 0% 24k
> > and then nothing, this stays this way for as long as I let it go without
> > any further response.
> > a ping to espn.com shows nothing yet I am able to successfully do a
> > traceroute. Even stranger this site was accessing fine about two weeks
> > ago, now nothing. I never was able to access sun.com though(same
> > behavior).
>
>
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