Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

[David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org>]

Hi,

Works great here, except having CONFIG_INET_ECN=y breaks connections
to some hosts[1].  I suggest CONFIG_INET_ECN be disabled.  Lots of
discussion here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00041.html

The Debian i386 kernels (at least) currently disable it[2].

-David

[1] : Some hosts (for example www.rei.com) send a TCP reset in
response to ECN enabled packets.  That makes it impossible to connect.
Here is some info describing why the hosts shouldn't be breaking when
we have ECN enabled:
http://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/draft-floyd-tcp-reset-00.txt

[2]
$ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.22-i386/kernel-image-2.4.22-i386_2.4.22-3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf kernel-image-2.4.22-i386_2.4.22-3.tar.gz
$ grep CONFIG_INET_ECN kernel-image-2.4/config/*
kernel-image-2.4/config/386:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/586tsc:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/686:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/686-smp:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/default:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/k6:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/k7:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
kernel-image-2.4/config/k7-smp:# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
$