tethering only works with google sites

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. start Wired Tether
2. connect to usb0
3. try to browse to sites

What is the expected output?
Works for all sites.

What do you see instead?
Only google sites will load.
The only other site I tested that worked is www.something.com.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
phone - android-wired-tether 1.4 on a Motorola Triumph with Android 2.2.2
computer - Gentoo Linux with Linux kernel 3.0.6 (usb networking and rndis are 
enabled)

Please provide any additional information below.
It looks like there was a similar issue in android-wifi-tether: 
https://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=1047

Original issue reported on code.google.com by benn.snyder@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 9:34

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I found a workaround on the client side - set the MTU of usb0 to 1472.

It appears that everything now works as expected - even rsync and ssh work.

Original comment by benn.snyder@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 9:58