Ebay Verification?

Wed Dec 28 23:35:46 UTC 2005

Mehgan Laveck wrote:

[Ebay woes]

> There seem to be some thoughts as to akamai being the possible culprit,
> specifically as it interacts with Linux.  I'm hoping a few of you Linux
> users out there will give it a shot, telnetting to port 80 on these IPs
> several times to see if you can get a failure.  Any thoughts on this issue
> are greatly appreciated.

I once had similar problems which turned out to be due to TCP ECN being 
enabled. Use tcpdump/tethereal to look at what's going on.

Check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn on the affected boxes.

Will