Bizzare FC2 test 1 networking issue

Nathan Fredrickson nathan at silverorange.com
Tue Feb 24 03:47:57 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:19, Tim Hawkins wrote:
> Everytime I boot the laptop, the Netgear router siezes up and stops 
> routing, requiring a hard reset, once reset it is fine, and does not 
> cause any problems, something during the FC2 boot is sending a network 
> packet that kills the Router, FC1 on the same hardware does not do the 
> same thing.

Have you tried with ECN disabled?  I have a netgear router that doesn't
work with ECN... but mine doesn't freeze.  ECN was enabled by default in
FC2 and it took me awhile to figure out why only TCP was broken on my
FC2 system.  Disable ECN by running:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn







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