[ale] can't reach sites using DSL

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Mon Jan 14 10:46:16 EST 2002


Do this as root:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

There may be a place somewhere in one of the config tools to set this so
you don't have to do the above command every time you reboot, but the above
will get you started for now.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:39:32AM -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> For weeks now, I haven't been able to reach some sites that I used to
> visit all of the time. Some of those sites are:
> 
> http://my.weather.com
> http://my.monster.com
> http://www.dvdovernight.com
> http://www.suntrust.com
> 
> This all happened after I upgraded to RedHat 7.2. Most sites load as fas
> as they always did. I have tried changing MTU and RWIN to no effect. The
> attistude of Earthlink support seems to be "Yeah, we'll get back to you
> on that later". I am looking for a few more things to try before I give
> up on Mindspring/Earthlink altogether. Any ideas?

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