From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:01:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:01:33 -0500 Received: from femail3.rdc1.on.home.com ([24.2.9.90]:54773 "EHLO femail3.rdc1.on.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:01:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5F7E96.AA60C7C4@Home.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:00:54 -0500 From: Shawn Starr Organization: Visualnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: miles@megapathdsl.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PROBLEM]: Strange network problems with 2.4.0 and 3c59x.o In-Reply-To: <3A51D40F.48B9ADB9@home.net> <3A5F791F.BCC236C1@Home.net> <3A5F7D2E.87BFC9B@megapathdsl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > - > 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/ - 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/