RE: [squid-users] connect-problems with any domains

> From: Marco Friedrich [mailto:mf@cephei.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:50 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: Andreas Piesk; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] connect-problems with any domains
>
> ok i have disabled tcp_ecn on this server and now i can make
> connections
> to this domains. it was the problem, but what is ecn ?
>

ecn = Explicit Congestion Notification

many networkdevices have broken tcp/ip-implementations. these
devices are refusing syn-packets with ecn-flags set.

see http://www.aciri.org/floyd/ecn.html

this ecn issue should be mentioned in the faq although it's not
related to squid. duane, are you reading ?

we should stop the thread here. we're going off-topic.

ciao -ap

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Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 07:07:56 MDT