I''ve discovered that I have to turn off tcp_ecn for my router to work. Does this create any problems for shorewall and is there anything I should do to modify it for this? Anthony -- ac@acampbell.org.uk || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles
On Monday 16 February 2004 09:43 am, Anthony Campbell wrote:> I''ve discovered that I have to turn off tcp_ecn for my router to work.I presume that you have to turn of tcp_ecn in the router or the router can''t connect to some sites?> Does this create any problems for shorewall and is there anything I > should do to modify it for this?Shorewall doesn''t care one way or the other. But see: http://www.shorewall.net/ECN.html -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net
On Monday 16 February 2004 10:11 am, Anthony Campbell wrote:> > Thanks for this. I''d never heard of ecn before. After 24 hours'' messing > about I found that my router (Netgear MR814) won''t connect to any sites > at all if this is enabled. > > Now that I have two computers on my router I take it I should change the > configuration for shorewall? (And put it on the laptop as well, > presumably.) I''m still on 1.4.x because I don''t think the new version > has been debianized yet. >Anthony -- remember that we don''t know anything about your configuration (other than apparently you have a Netgear M4814). Given that tiny bit of information, how can we possibly make sense of the last paragraph???? -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net