[fpc-pascal] 64 bits

[Johann Glaser]

Hi!

> It is known that some people have a problem accessing  
> www.freepascal.org, but unfortunately no one knows the exact cause.  
> Some people think a certain kind of icmp packets are filtered by the  
> firewall in front of the machine that hosts www.freepascal.org  
> (something with fragmenting packets) and that this causes the problem.

Just as an idea: Did you think of ECN problems (Explicit Congestion
Negotiation, RFC 3168 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt)? The
http://www.kernel.org/ site has a news entry (16.1.2002), which says:
--- schnipp ---
Please note that kernel.org uses Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN),
as defined in RFC 3168. Some broken firewalls or gateways may have
problem connecting to ECN-enabled servers. Please contact your firewall
or gateway vendor for necessary updates.
--- schnapp ---
So possibly a broken router which doesn't like the ECN bits in the IP
header is the cause of the problems. 

You can disable sending packets which use ECN on your Linux box by
  echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

Bye
  Hansi