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Re: [PLUG] problem accessing techrepublic.com
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> Hey, I've got a weird problem - my Mandrake 8.1 workstation cannot
> contact http://www.techrepublic.com. Either Konqueror or Mozilla.
> I get a error message: "Timeout on server - Timed out while waiting
> to connect to www.techrepublic.com"
It looks like www.techrepublic.com is sitting behind a silly
firewall which doesn't like TCP SYN packets that have the ECN
(Explicit Congestion Notification; RFC2481) bits set. As root,
try doing:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
Good luck,
-mct
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