Re: [opensuse] Opensuse 10.3 can't use encryption on hotel network; windows machines are fine

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM, james Wright wrote:

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:04 AM, James Pifer wrote:

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Oh, sorry, I thought you said you could ssh out. Maybe I misunderstood.

I can make an ssh connection, but as soon as I try to do anything over the connection, it fails. It's definitely not the browser. My thunderbird client also fails. It starts to download emails but then loses connection, similar to ssh.

I used wireshark with the browser and the browser makes SSL connections, exchanges keys, but then just goes to lala land.

I do have a workaround this morning. I installed our sslvpn client and successfully connected to the office, and as long as I route everything over this connection it all works.

To answer your question, yes, I've tried other browsers. I have Windows XP running in a VM using NAt networking and it has the same problems.

At this point I have no idea. I sent an email to the hotel support to try and find out what equipment they have at this hotel. I doubt they will share that info, and they probably don't have any linux type knowledge, but I figured it's worth a shot.

It sounds to me like an MTU issue. I would ask what MTU to use and do something like:

ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400

The 1400 can be replaced with whatever number the hotel IT staff provide. The default is generally 1500, but some firewalls seem to have other limits.

Good luck,

James --

And being lower than the firewall's MTU is ok, just not being Over. But why would this only affect ssl connections? Other than the corruption it might impose I can't see why a regular web page would load properly but an encrypted one fail. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org