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Re: can't go to certain web sites?



Andy Wettstein <awettstein@cait.org> writes:

> Here's a weird one.  I've got a friend using Debian on ultra 5, but
> he can't access certain web sites.  Notably www.sun.com, but he can
> access several other sites sites.  He has tried mozilla, opera,
> konqueror, and lynx and all of them have the same problems.  They
> just sit there and time out after a while.  The only thing I see
> that is odd is that on a dmesg there are lines and lines of this:
> 
> hw tcp v4 csum failed
> 
> Has anyone else had a problem like this?  This doesn't seem normal.

Disable ECN: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

,----[ linux/Documentation/Configure.help ]
| [...]
| CONFIG_INET_ECN
|   Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows routers to notify
|   clients about network congestion, resulting in fewer dropped packets
|   and increased network performance. This option adds ECN support to the
|   Linux kernel, as well as a sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn) which
|   allows ECN support to be disabled at runtime.
| 
|   Note that, on the Internet, there are many broken firewalls which
|   refuse connections from ECN-enabled machines, and it may be a while
|   before these firewalls are fixed. Until then, to access a site behind
|   such a firewall (some of which are major sites, at the time of this
|   writing) you will have to disable this option, either by saying N now
|   or by using the sysctl.
| 
|   If in doubt, say N.
| [...]
`----


        Juergen

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