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Re: Network security



On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:13:15PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Have you chosen to use 'Explicit Congestion Notification' when you
> compiled the kernel?  If so, many firewalls and routers drop packages
> with this set.  It bit me, and I couldn't find out what it was - look
> at whether /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn contains a 0 (which works here),
> or a 1 (which causes some problems).
> 
> </wild guess>

But a good one, it works!!
Thanks!!

Now, I wonder why this problem occours. I'll have to take a look at some RFC
to figure out.. anyone who can point me in the right direction??
 
-- 
Paul Fleischer / ProGuy



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