Re: [Sheflug] ECN D'oh!

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Well, last night it came to me - 2.4 Explicit Congestion Notification.
> Turned it off (echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn). Everything now works.
> This is absolutely the first time it has ever caused me a problem (hence me
> not recognising the problem, nor thinking of the solution - I realised it
> was only a TCP problem, but didn't really make the connection). Has anyone
> else seen this problem 'in the wild' as it were? I'm sure I haven't.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> -- 

Blueyonder's servers are unreachable if ECN is on ... there may be other 
machines out on the net as well that have problems. I've got it switched 
off until the internet as a whole supports ECN :)

Chris...

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