On Fri, July 7, 2006 22:47, Dwayne Hottinger wrote: > Sirs, > I read the FAQ on kernel.org and they have the following: > Please note that kernel.org uses Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), as > defined in RFC 3168. Some broken firewalls or gateways may have problem > connecting to ECN-enabled servers. Please contact your firewall or gateway > vendor for necessary updates. > > How can I get around this (short of replacing my firewall), if this is the > issue of why I cant connect to kernel.org? Also how can I check if this is my > problem? On your end you can disable ECN by: cat 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn I don't think you can make kernel.org disable it... (If ECN is the problem and if the suffering firewalls/gateways are in your control, the real solution would be to fix the firewalls/gateways.) Gr, Rob
