[37019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux, ECN and old firewalls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Slagle)
Sun Apr 29 20:05:31 2001
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
To: "ken harris." <ken@boii.com>
Cc: Lee Watterworth <lwatterworth@rim.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Several other higher profile sites (yahoo comes to mind) were doing the
same thing until I also turned that option off.
I have a feeling it's not only the pix that is broken in this respect.
Jason
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, ken harris. wrote:
> >Bumped into a problem where my firewall was refusing connections from a
> >linux machine, found the reason and thought I would share:
>
> saw similar problems around last august (i think) .. hotmail was refusing
> connections from one of my linux boxes. a bit of research showed me the
> following:
>
> the workaround i was using was:
> echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
>
> (though i was kind of pissed i had to even use a workaround and those
> sites were being too stubborn to fix their gear).
