2.6-test10 and ECN

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Nov 26 09:29:53 UTC 2003


On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:12:46PM -0800, Nathan G. Grennan wrote:
> I have found 2.6-test10.1.95, at least, has ECN turned on. This was
> breaking many websites for me. Many firewalls are known to have issues
> with ECN. One example is at least some PIX firewalls. Sadly it seems to
> more corporate the site, the more likely it is to break.

the sysadmins of those sites need to upgrade their firmware to be compliant
with internet standards (and iirc the broken firmware is also superceded by
a series of security upgrades which all have this bug fixed as well)





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