netdev - RE: Accessing certain web sites broken from 2.6.19+

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Message-ID: <29891.simon.1178882860@5ec7c279.invalid>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 12:27:40 +0100
From:	"Simon Arlott" <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
To:	"Andrew Hall" <andrew.a.hall@...il.com>
Cc:	"'Robert Iakobashvili'" <coroberti@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Accessing certain web sites broken from 2.6.19+


On Fri, May 11, 2007 06:16, Andrew Hall wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Iakobashvili [mailto:coroberti@...il.com]
>> Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 2:38 PM
>> To: Andrew Hall
>> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: Accessing certain web sites broken from 2.6.19+
>>
>> On 5/11/07, Andrew Hall <andrew.a.hall@...il.com> wrote:
>> > When accessing certain web sites when using any kernel above 2.6.19,
>> TCP
>> > seems to break. Connection to the site is established but never
>> completes.
>> > One particular site is www.dcita.gov.au. Is there a known issue
>> pertaining
>> > to this? Using any kernel below 2.6.19 (for example: 2.6.12 or
>> 2.6.15) works
>> > fine.
>>
>> Including 2.6.21?
>>
>> Which browser/s have you tried?
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Robert Iakobashvili,
>> coroberti %x40 gmail %x2e com
>> ...........................................................
>> http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net
>> A web testing and traffic generation tool.
>
> I have not yet tried 2.6.21.. only tried to 2.6.20.9. The issue isn't
> browser dependent ,as a wget directly from the OS will also fail during the
> connection. Interestingly requests made from hosts behind the 2.6.20 gateway
> that make the same request work fine, it seems it's only requests made from
> the localhost itself.
>

Use tcptraceroute with and without -E to check this isn't a problem with ECN.


-- 
Simon Arlott
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