FC3 with BEFSR11 Linksys router slow connection

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Shawn Iverson wrote:
> 
>> I am highly suspicious about the kernel settings.  Surfing the net I
>> found this option in the kernel that controls TCP Explicit Congestion
>> Notification.  Would this option be related to my problem
>> (CONFIG_INET_ECN=y)?  I guess that it won't hurt to try recompiling the
>> kernel with this option turned off, if it exists in the 2.6 kernel.
>> Something in the back of my mind tells me that the Linksys is breaking
>> some tiny, little TCP/IP standard on which FC3 depends.
> 
> 
> You don't need to recompile the kernel to disable ECN. To do this 
> straight away, do:
> 
> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> 
> However, you may find that "0" is the default value of this parameter 
> before you did this.
> 
> If not, you can make it the default by adding to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> 
> net.ipv4.conf.tcp_ecn = 0

Sorry, that should have been:

net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0

Paul.