Re: [LUG] AOL connectivity in Linux

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/06/06, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 29/06/06, *Neil Stone* <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     use a bog standard router then.. connect using an ethernet cable, or
>     wifi and you're off...
>
>
> It doesn't work. AOL's packet size is 1400 rather than 1500, so that's
> an extra thing to configure. It doesn't work with ipv6 properly.
> Disable that.  The username system is confusing. Spend hours looking
> it up. And then spend months wondering why it doesn't work on anything
> other than port 80 (no portage, no apt, no instant messaging, really
> slow web browsing...)
>
> If it wasn't for AOL I would have been using Linux eight months early.
>
So if it doesn't work, how come I've been using it sucessfully with
Linux for 13 months?

I'm not fussed about IPv6 yet.  Ok there will be a time when I need to
worry about it but I will worry about it when the time comes.  The
username is easier to remember than what I used to have with Eclipse and
Zen.  Updating the MTU on the router was no great issue.

Everything seems to work apart from outgoing SMTP.  For that I'm using
my web host for SMTP.  Hey, I even host webmail for personal use on my
DSL connection.

As I've found many times before, if you can't get it working ask and
someone will be able to come up with some sort of solution or some
things to try.

I asked on here, about five times. Nobody replied.

The MTU had to be set on the computer (windows also) before it worked (in windows.) I never successfully got linux to retain an MTU, so that may have been it.

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Ben Goodger
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