On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 4:31pm, semi linux wrote
I have a very odd problem connecting to some websites from my CentOS 5 box
Target websites: www.connecttech.com www.3ware.com (two of my HW vendors)
I can usually get some kind of response, but if the content (download or page itself) is larger in size (downloads never pass 100K), then it hangs...
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.