Not bloody likely, I suppose.

But with 2.6.17-rc6, I am unable to talk to the webserver at www.everymac.com
and with 2.6.16.18 (configured identically), this works just fine.

This is with a very simple text access: {"telnet www.everymac.com 80", "GET /", "", ""}

Does that site work for anyone else here running 2.6.17-rc6 ??

I've tried it on three different machines (two Pentium-M boxes, and an AMD64 box/kernel),
all with the same results.  NFG with rc6, fine with earlier kernels.  Yes, they are all
behind the same Linux (2.6.16.xx) firewall, but that doesn't seem to bother anything.
Again, just switching to the older 2.6.16.xx kernels (or earlier) works fine.

I'm going insane!  Help!

Kernel .config from one of the machines is attached.