On 16 Feb 2004, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:17:07PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > | On 16 Feb 2004, David Clymer wrote: > [...] > | > Do you have ECN enabled? > > | Yes, thank you very much; this really does seem to be it. > | Next question: how do I turn it off permanently? A quick search on my > | system suggests it has something to do with ipchains, hence my firewall, > | which seems a bit of a problem. > > To disable TCP ECN at each boot, put the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: > # Some routers are broken. > net/ipv4/tcp_ecn = 0 > > (if the router correctly and completely followed the TCP > specification, then the ECN extension wouldn't cause it to > malfunction) > > -D > > -- > > SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0 > 0 rows returned > (http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/no-clue.jpg) > > www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks very much to both. I have never heard of this before. A little research on Google has produced a sheaf of papers about it. We live and learn... Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
