On Saturday 24 July 2004 9:22 pm, David Cary Hart wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 11:44, Antony Stone wrote: > > Excuse me, but *what* are you seeing? > > > > I can see the subject of this posting, but it means nothing to me. > > > > Please explain the problem so we can understand what it is. > > Jul 24 16:21:01 mail kernel: - Firewall: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:4f:4e:12:f9:93:00:09:5b:c9:37:54:08:00 SRC=68.236.163.19 D > ST=192.168.0.31 LEN=41 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=126 ID=59477 CE DF PROTO=TCP > SPT=4694 DPT=135 SEQ=4252944646 ACK=3536024229 WIND > OW=64320 ACK URGP=0 > > Note the "CE" just in front of "DF" = Congestion Experienced It seems that the CE bit is set by some router in the path of the packets, therefore this is unlikely to be a problem on your network or firewall (unless you have your own routers perhaps). http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2884/Output/chapter3.html A Google search for TCP and Congestion Experienced should give you a good background into why this bit may get set, however I don't think there's a way to find out which router set it. Is it causing you any problems? Regards, Antony. -- "The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it." - New York Times, following a demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
