comp.os.linux.networking

> Most of the time, some flaky client will try to some server that's
> either overloaded or even offline.

I guess I tracked it down to the packet size again. Except this time I
needed to add -mru to /etc/ppp/options to get it working. Which sets the
MRU to 1500. In addition to changing the MTU size to 1500 in
/etc/ppp/options. I'm not quite sure why I have to keep changing my
configuration to maintain a connection with this one website. On the
local machines the MTU is still 576. Having larger packet sizes really
screws with the queuing of packets. And otherwise makes it feel and behave
slower than it really is on this already slow shared dial-up connection.