My problems with FC2 test1

[Swamper]

Thomas Molina wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> > >>I had to boot into that "other" (2.4) kernel version. I reset the router 
> > >>and tried other things to the router before I figured out the issue is 
> > >>with the 2.6 kernel.
> > >>
> > >>First broken 3com card, then "busted router" issues.
> > >>
> > >>Does anyone know if somethong has been submitted to linksys to correct 
> > >>the problem yet? (Firmware upgrade)
> 
> I don't know if anything has been submitted, but I checked to ensure I had 
> the latest version.  I do.  The update was from June of 2003 and the 
> release notes do not mention ECN at all.
> 
> 
> > > I don't get this; if it worked with 2.4 and is broke with 2.6
> > > then WTF does this have to do with linksys?  Sounds like it has
> > > something to do with the Fedora updates included with this new
> > > kernel version.  Am I correct in assuming that the kernel itself
> > > is not being developed in the project?
> 
> It is even more interesting than that.  Fedora's 2.6 handles the issues 
> different than the Linus 2.6.  One of the experiments I did last night 
> tried to compare the two.  I keep up with development kernels, so I have a 
> bitkeeper 2.6 repository available.  For both the Fedora kernel and the 
> bitkeeper kernel I used the GUI tool to delete the existing network setup 
> and then recreated it.  Using the Fedora kernel I got no Internet 
> connectivity, even after turning off ECN.  If I used the bitkeeper kernel 
> I got full connectivity.  If I created the network/eth0 setup using the 
> bitkeeper kernel I even got good connectivity using the Fedora kernel.  
> 
> I don't believe the Linksys was an issue in this test because I was using 
> static IP addresses.  If someone wants me to take the Linksys completely 
> out of the loop I can; I just need to arrange a time to take the rest of 
> the family off-line.
> 
> 
> > I guess with ECN being set to off, it didn't matter that ECN was broken. 
> >   This is from what I read from other earlier email to this list or 
> > development.
> > 
> > I went ahead and checked out the website for my router and flashed the 
> > december 2003 upgrade into it.
> 
> 
> > I'll try to connect to the router from FC2 T1 using the 2.6 kernel and 
> > before running the command that was given earlier today to the list.
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> > This sounds easier than having to boot into windows or into a 2.4 kernel.
> > 
> > Related to linksys. I saw some information related to GPL sources 
> > available and a penguin on their site. Has anyone used this gpl code and 
> > is it for the larger scale routers? Any luck with the source codes?
> 
> 
> I looked at the page.  There isn't any code listed there for my Linksys, 
> so I haven't examined the code at all.  My router is a BEFSR41v2.

It doesn't look like Linksys supports my BEFW11S4 version 2.
They have an upgrade for version 4 but nothing for version 2 so
maybe it's time to look into getting a new toy.  At this point
I'm thinking of switching to another brand; I was not impressed
with what they called their Linux support.  It appears to me
that if you want Linux support for a router, Linksys is not the
company to deal with.

Anyone have suggestions for a router company that hasn't totally
sold out to Microsoft?  I see the Cisco Systems logo at the
bottom of the Linksys pages which only confused me more because
I always thought Cisco was on top of the router game.