[HostAP] Re: HotMail Not Working..

Yanghwee Tan tanyh
Tue Feb 4 21:31:50 PST 2003


Yea tat's possible caused for Matthew's cafe!

i've read about toggling on TCP Explicit Congestion
Notification (ecn) boolean settings affects surfing
to some sites.

Btw, to permanent set this value on boot you can
do this, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and set:

   net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0


---
cheers,
Yanghwee.


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Francois Gurin wrote:

>
> also check to see if you have ecn enabled in your kenrnel
> and disable it if you do:
>
> $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> 1
> $ echo 0 > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
>
> -francois
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:45:24PM +0800, Yanghwee Tan wrote:
> >
> > Matthew,
> >
> > hostap is a driver, it doesn't block network services,
> > or any particularly websites! :)
> >
> > it could be the dns service or proxy service that's doing
> > the filtering, perhaps u could check that out?
> > also u may wana find out more from your ISP?
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> > Yanghwee.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Matthew Tedder wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I'm running an Open Source Cafe and tried offering wireless via HostAP--it set
> > > up easily but cannot access some particular websites such as:
> > >
> > > hotmail
> > > slashdot
> > > and a friends home server (running FreeBSD)
> > >
> > > I am using the latest Red Hat.  I've lost a few customers to the coffee shop
> > > down the street as a result of this--HotMail is CRUCIAL.  Does anyone have
> > > any idea what might be going on?
> > >
> > > I'm using a DWL 520 card.
> > >
> > > Any useful information would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matthew C. Tedder
> > > SimpFlex Technologies, Inc.
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