2.4.19 Networking Wierdness - Solved

[Ed Skinner]

Davidm,
     Thanks, that fixed it. (Glad you knew where to look for what I 
considered a *very* obscure bug!)



On Friday 06 December 2002 06:38 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> Did you make the kernel with IP: Explicit Congestion Notification
> support turned on? If you did that explains it. Broken routers on the
> net make this a bad option to use.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Davidm
>
> On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:38, Ed Skinner wrote:
> >      Briefly, with 2.4.19 I can't get to certain web locations while
> > other locations work just fine. I see the problems with plain ftp,
> > mozilla and with lynx.
> >      Not so briefly:
> >      I upgraded my kernel (compiled from source, etc.) to 2.4.19 about
> > two weeks ago. Everything seemed to be working but yesterday I noticed I
> > could not access some web and ftp locations. After suffering the "You're
> > not running Windows?" discussion with Qwest technical support, I was
> > embarassed to notice that other systems here worked fine. The problem was
> > limited to the one machine. I sheepishly told the Qwest technician "never
> > mind" and started trying to debug the situation.
> >      A few minutes ago I rebooted that machine with the previous kernel,
> > 2.4.9_34, and found those same locations now working. In 2.4.9_34 it
> > works, in 2.4.19 it fails, but only for selected web locations. For what
> > it may be worth, the failing/working web locations are
> > www.users.qwest.net and ftp.users.qwest.net.
> >      Anyone recognize what's wrong or know where I should go to research
> > this? Any/all tips/suggestions would be most welcome. I'm looking for 1)
> > a fix, and 2) a methodology to resolve this on my own next time. (I'd
> > appreciate both a fish, and being taught how to fish.)
> >      TIA

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