On Dec 14, 2004, at 6:32 PM, J. Piers Hearn wrote:
> In essence, I seem to be unable to download (either via FTP or lynx) 
> any
> file greater than 1-2KB. I discovered the problem a few months ago,
> after many months of not needing to touch this particular box (my
> firewall).

Sounds like a path MTU discovery problem, try using ifconfig to reduce 
your MTU down significantly (try values of 512 and 1024) and see 
whether that makes things work.  From there, you can adjust it back up 
to whatever will fit into your pipe without breaking.

-- 
-Chuck