[Gllug] Barclays routers don't support ECN

[Dylan]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 20:08, Mark Lowes wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:16, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > I've been banging my head against this strange problem with the
> > Barclays web site.  It just wouldn't fscking work, yet every other
> > site on the net did.
>
> [...]
>
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> >
> > If you're a Barclays customer, you might want to log a support call
> > asking them to upgrade their routers.
>
> Get used to it, there are lots of networks out there which don't support
> ECN, we encountered this a while back and it's not improved much since
> then.  For the moment go with the kernel default and don't bother with
> it.


Just out of interest, what is ECN...?

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