As I posted on this list 08/26/2001:
Enter the line
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
in file
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
It is then possible after a reboot.

 -- Bjarne Thomsen

Jason Bodnar wrote:
> 
> After much trial and error I determined the cause of this problem: TCP Explicit
> Congestion Notification support is built into the stock Mandrake 8.1 kernel and
> is not turned off at boot time. Obviously, the root of the problem is
> walgreens, etc. having bad routers (not sure why my print server was refusing
> the connection as well) but Mandrake either needs to disable this in their
> kernels or provide an init script that does:
> 
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> 
> Very, very nasty problem to track down.
> 
> On 31-Oct-2001 Jason Bodnar wrote:
> > I upgraded to 8.1 the other day and now I can't connect to certain hosts such
> > as walgreens.com, matrix.net, puc.state.tx.us or the web admin interface of
> > my
> > Intel printserver.
> >
> > Simply trying to telnet to any of these hosts results in a connection
> > refused:
> >
> > $ telnet www.walgreens.com 80
> > Trying 63.73.199.22...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > $ telnet pucsmtp.puc.state.tx.us 25
> > Trying 168.39.76.245...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > $ telnet 192.168.1.5 80
> > Trying 192.168.1.5...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> >
> > A windows machine and a Mandrak 8.0 box on my internal network can get to
> > these
> > hosts just fine.
> >
> > The only table configured is nat:
> >
> > $ sudo iptables -t nat -L
> > Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> > Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> > MASQUERADE  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
> >
> > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> >
> > The rest are empty:
> >
> > $ sudo iptables -t filter -L
> > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> > $ sudo iptables -t mangle -L
> > Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> > target     prot opt source               destination
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Jason Bodnar
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> 
> --
> Jason Bodnar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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