Paul Gear wrote:
Tim Hawkins wrote:
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>>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:
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>>echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
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>Is that a permement change Nathan, or will I have to put that into the
>rc scripts to ensure its disabled on boot?
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To make those changes permanent, put a corresponding entry in
/etc/sysctl.conf.
That seems to fix the problem Paul, laptop boots ok now without killing
router
I'll get onto Netgear and findout why tcp_ecn cause the router so much
distress. Im running
the latest firmware on the box, and its a very popular brand/model.