On 30-Oct-2000 gphan@aleia.com wrote: > Please CC me on any replies, I am not on the list. > > 1. Connection timeouts when hitting certain sites with linux2.4 > 2. Using kernels test9 and the pre's to test10, I have this problem > where some sites will not start a connection with me. Some sites are > www.amazon.com www.fool.com www.sharkyextreme.com. Other sites like > yahoo continue to work fine. Tcpdump seems to indicate that I never > get any packets from from those sites. I am behind a freeBSD NAT box. > All the other machines behind the box (Windows NT, Windows 2k, linux 2.2) > do not seem to have these problems. I have also tried to use a Solaris 2.6 > box > with ipfilter as the NAT. I also have the same problems. When I do > revert to the standard RedHat kernel it will work again. I would try it in > front > of the NAT but this is an office environment that I can't screw around with > it too much. Did you configured (make config) kernel to use ECN (explicit congestion negotiation)? If so, put somewhere in startup scripts next line: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn and try it again. Bye, Milan ---------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
