Strange network hangs/delays with Firefox/Thunderbird/ssh

[Matthew Dillon]

:Hi,
:
:Yesterday everthing works like a charm. Then, today in a different  
:network, Thunderbird, Firefox3 and ssh seems to
:need around a minute to connect (resolve DNS or load a page, don't  
:know exactly), while w3m (text browser) doesn't show
:any of the problems (it immediatly shows the page). ping does work of  
:course too. Could that be related to threading issues?
:
:The only difference to yesterday (where everything worked perfectly)  
:is that today I use bge0 instead of rum0.
:I'll try it later in an again different network where I can both test  
:bge0 and rum0.
:
:Regards,
:
:   Michael

    Try turning off any automatic checksumming features on the interface.

    What you are describing typically occurs when a network interface
    starts dropping or mis-checksumming certain packets.

    Other possibilities include: long or fragmented packets being
    improperly blocked or erroring out.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>