RE: [squid-users] Certain URL's timeout

Excellent!

Looks like RH 7.2 does have ECN support compiled by default. I turned it
off using sysctl and everything loads fine.

Thanks for the help.

Marty Westra
Network Administrator
Electronic Systems, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:07 PM
To: Marc Elsen
Cc: Marty Westra; squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Certain URL's timeout

Marc Elsen wrote:
>
> Marty Westra wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am VERY new to Squid so excuse my ignorance. I've got it set up on a
test
>>environment and noticed that there are some URL's that the proxy can't
seem
>>to connect to. (one of them being www.pcmall.com) I'm basically running
the
>>default installation (Version 2.4.STABLE1 on RH 7.2) and do not have any
>>filtering set up.
>>
>>Is there a reason why some sites may not work? Is it something on the
site
>>itself that is causing it not to load, or do I not have something set up
>>right?
>>
>
> In Redhat you may want to take care of the default ip ecn support in
> the IP stack.
> Turn it off, because some Internet devices may not handle TCP ECN
> in the right manner.

The default Red Hat kernel packages already have this disabled. But it is
definitely worth checking.

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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
http://www.swelltech.com
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