[ale] AOL (ugh)

[Bao C. Ha]

Check to see if ecn is turn on in your kernel.

$cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

If it is 1, change it to 0 to see if it works.

$echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

Turning ecn on is a good thing.  Unfortunately,
there are still many routers out there that are
not properly configured to understand ecn.  The
admin is just too lazy or brain-dead!

Bao

> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 13:58, Tyler Kiley wrote:
> > I've called AOL's tech support number 6 times in the past 
> hour, asking if I 
> > could get any information on how their proxy servers work, 
> and I've been 
> > disconnected without explanation (or transferred to 
> cancellations, or told 
> > they don't use proxy servers, or something else really 
> clever) every time.
> > 
> > So... I guess I'll bring my question here:  I have a fresh 
> install of rh7.2 
> > with an even fresher apache 1.3.24 running smoothly behind 
> a linksys dsl 
> > router which is forwarding net traffic on port 80 to the 
> linux box.  
> > Everything works great..... except that aol users can't 
> access the website 
> > (stalls on "Web site contacted, waiting for reply", then 
> times out with "web 
> > site not responding").  Is there something glaringly 
> obvious that might cause 
> > a problem like this?  I've installed apache quite a few 
> times, and never had 
> > this sort of problem with AOL -- it looks like the router 
> is the difference, 
> > but I'm not sure why it should be causing a problem.


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