On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:40:12PM -0400, Shaji N V wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a problem in connecting to a website from my linux box. I use > dialup connection through my ISP or log on to my work(via dialup). The > strange thing is that all machines at work are able to access the website > (sun or windows), by my linux box cannot. If I boot the machine in windows, > then I can connect to the website either thro work or ISP. The website is > running https, so I try the following on the sun box: > Perhaps this has something to do with the ecn. It seems that debian 2.4.x precompiled kernels ship with ecn enabled. A few firewalls are brokenly filtering (and dropping) ecn enabled packets, however.
You can disable ecn by: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Mike
