Comment 14 for bug 59331

I'm a new Linux user as well, so this may be obvious to everyone else
but I got caught out until I realised that Ubuntu overwrites changes
made to sysctl.conf when you reboot unless you use the correct command
to edit the file.

The command is:
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

If you just edit the file without 'sudo' then the changes will be
overwritten on reboot.

deafpanda wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to Linux, using ubuntu 8.04.
>
> I have this problem, and it has not been solved by following the advice
> above:
>
> I only seem to be able to connect to google. Other websites timeout. I
> can ping everything fine. Synaptic times out when it tries to get
> packages.
>
> I've edited /etc/sysctl.conf, adding the line
>
> net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
>
> There's no change, everything still times out.
>
> Can anyone help a poor linux newbie who would just love to stop relying
> on windows?
>
>