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Re: can't go to certain web sites?



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:05:31PM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Andy Wettstein <awettstein@cait.org> writes:
> 
> > Here's a weird one.  I've got a friend using Debian on ultra 5, but
> > he can't access certain web sites.  Notably www.sun.com, but he can
> > access several other sites sites.  He has tried mozilla, opera,
> > konqueror, and lynx and all of them have the same problems.  They
> > just sit there and time out after a while.  The only thing I see
> > that is odd is that on a dmesg there are lines and lines of this:
> > 
> > hw tcp v4 csum failed
> > 
> > Has anyone else had a problem like this?  This doesn't seem normal.
> 
> Disable ECN: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

That's weird.  How come that is enable by default on the debian sparc
kernel, but not the debian x86 kernel?  

> 
> ,----[ linux/Documentation/Configure.help ]
> | [...]
> | CONFIG_INET_ECN
> |   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.
> | 
> |   If in doubt, say N.
> | [...]
> `----
> 
> 
>         Juergen
> 
> -- 
> Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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