Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:00:54 -0500 | From | Shawn Starr <> | Subject | Re: [PROBLEM]: Strange network problems with 2.4.0 and 3c59x.o |
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Oh, hrm.... Guess I shouldn't have turned that on ;) Sorry. nevermind :)
Miles Lane wrote:
> Make sure your kernel build .config file contains the line: > > # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set > > not > > CONFIG_INET_ECN=y > > Here's what the kernel configuration help has to say: > > Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows routers to notify > clients about network congestion, resulting in fewer dropped packets > and increased network performance. This option adds ECN support to the > Linux kernel, as well as a sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn) which > allows ECN support to be disabled at runtime. > > Note that, on the Internet, there are many broken firewalls which > refuse connections from ECN-enabled machines, and it may be a while > before these firewalls are fixed. Until then, to access a site behind > such a firewall (some of which are major sites, at the time of this > writing) you will have to disable this option, either by saying N now > or by using the sysctl. > > Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > Here's something strange that i've been noticing with 2.4.0. Some websites I am > > unable to access now. For example: > > > > http://www.scotiabank.ca/simplify/index.html > > <snip> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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