Re: Problem accessing some websites

[tim haegele <tim@atomstrahl.de>]

hello 
have you enabled Explicit Congestion Notification in your kernel 
configuration ?

try
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
to solve your problem, or recompile your kernel and take out ECN fix it

tim


On Friday, 19. October 2001 15:31, elawson wrote:
> I run a debian 2.2 box using IP Masqing to provide internet access for a
> small office.
> Recently, the users have found certain websites can no longer be accessed.
> These are important sites to obtain information such as the US PTO. It is
> required that these sites be available for the office to get its work done.
> I remember reading about a similar problem, but have lost the reference. 
> If I remember right, some websites or associated systems do not handle IPv6
> according to spec while Linux does and this leads to the sites not being
> available.  The browser finds the site and then it hangs. Does anyone have
> a workaround for this problem?
>
> Currently running the 2.2.19 kernel and all other updates to Potato.
>
> TIA
>
> Ed Lawson