rmoktali at vsnl.net wrote: > in firefox, i am also not able to access google, sourceforge. times out. (ping shows no loss) > no issues with www.fedoraproject.org Sounds like it could possibly be a TCP window scaling problem, but it's hard to say for sure. Try this as root and see if it helps: sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0 Jay