Accessing Toronto Public Library's Website with Linux

[Henry de Valence]

On Fri December 19 2008 3:56:10 pm Merv Curley wrote:
> On December 19, 2008, Giles Orr wrote:
> >      -----
> >
> > Some customers have reported slowness accessing Toronto Public Library
> > websites on computers running the Linux operating system. The problem
> > is most likely caused by Linux's use of strict internet routing and
> > firewall settings. We're working on a fix at TPL, but you can also
> > solve the problem on your computer. Please only attempt this if you're
> > familiar with the command line and editing files in /etc/ .
> >
> > First, test the fix by opening a terminal or command prompt with root
> > privileges and issue this command:
> >
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale
>
> I tried this on my Debian and SuSE 11.0 distros and get a No Such File
> error. Is the command correct?
> Is 'echo' supposed to add this line to the proc filesystem?
>
> Now the site is almost useless,  I just don't use TPL unless I have to.
>
> Regards

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

worked for me on SuSE 11.0

Henry de Valence
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