Problem accessing some https sites

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu Feb 1 20:04:31 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:44 -0500, Jacques B. wrote:
> > One of the threads of discussion can be found here:
> >
> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/6723
> >
> > It would also impact an FC5 system as long as it had been "updated" to a
> > later kernel....  It is also completely dependent on the "path" that the
> > packets take.  So from home, you may not be crossing the offending
> > router, while at work you are.  Of course, it might actually be the
> > router at work.  The goal, apparently, is to improve performance on
> > large data activity and hence the feature being tuned up in the later
> > kernel....  While we're officially "correct", some hardware in the
> > middle may not understand it, but hopefully over time the problem
> > hardware will go away.... :-)
> >
> > --Rob
> 
> Thanks.  Checking that out now.
> 
> Jacques B.
> 
Hi, Jacques and others,
	I am having a similar problem, but the window scaling didn't fix the
issue.  As I read the information in the link, I saw that they had ECN
disabled.  However, I didn't see how or where to do that.  Can someone
please tell me where that control exists?

Regards,
Les H




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