2.4 networking setting

Fraser Campbell fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 16 15:58:05 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:44, Terry Tanski wrote:

> A couple of times on this list there has been discussion regarding an
> obscure 2.4 network setting in /proc. It affects TCP connections and not
> having it set right means sometimes you can connect to services and
> other times not. I seem to recall that the default may be set wrong and
> should be changed.

ECN, probably at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

Set it to off or some silly networking equipment will have problems talking to 
you (notably PIX firewalls).

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