Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as Tothwolf exclaimed: > Anyone know what the exact cause of this is? I'm afraid I don't understand > the kernel's networking code enough to trace the changes that were made > between 2.2.19 and 2.2.20. > Shortly after posting this message I decided to tinker around with some settings. I discovered that setting the MTU on the ethernet cards of both linux machines to 1412 eliminated the hangups. I suspect that the linksys router is breaking PMTU discovery and the 1500 MTU was just too much for PPPoE. Jeff -- "No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." -- General George Patton - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html