From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: Kernel has TCP ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) enabled by default, which some routers (notably the popular Netgear SOHO variety) do not handle correctly, effectively breaking TCP connections accross that router. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.1-1.65 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Fedora Core2 Test 1 behind Netgear WGR614 with latest firmware 1126 2.Attempt HTTP connection to external system (http://fedora.redhat.com) Actual Results: Ping + Traceroute + DNS to internet hosts OK Timeouts in Mozilla, Konquerer, Lynx, and in raw telnet to port 80. Manually disabling ECN as below restores functionality until reboot: echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Expected Results: Mozilla, Konquerer, and Lynx should be able to access http://fedora.redhat.com Additional info: Workaround to disable ECN using command: echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117665 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.