[plug] 2.4 Kernel and TCP

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 AWoodley at IINet.net.au wrote:

> G'Day,
>     I've notice that on all of the machines that I administer that are
> using a 2.4 kernl I'm unable to connect to some websites. The sites
> include www.ibm.com and www.moneymanagement.com.au. This occurs on both
> workstations and server - ie loading the page in IE through an squid proxy
> and loading the page in Mozilla on my home machine. If I bypass the proxy
> server, the page loads fine. I am able to telnet to port 80 of said site
> from a windows client or a 2.2 kernel linux system, but 2.4 simply times
> out after a couple of minutes.

try "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn"  does that help ???

Yours Tony.

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