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<title>Shorewall and ECN</title>
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<meta http-equiv="content-type"
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content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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<meta name="author" content="Tom Eastep">
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<body>
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bgcolor="#400169" height="90">
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<td
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width="100%">
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<h1 align="center"><font color="#ffffff">ECN</font></h1>
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</table>
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<br>
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Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) is described in RFC 3168 and is a
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proposed internet standard. Unfortunately, not all sites support ECN and
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when a TCP connection offering ECN is sent to sites that don't support it,
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the result is often that the connection request is ignored.<br>
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<br>
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To allow ECN to be used, Shorewall allows you to enable ECN on your Linux
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systems then disable it in your firewall when the destination matches a list
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that you create (the /etc/shorewall/ecn file).<br>
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<br>
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You enable ECN by<br>
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<blockquote>
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<pre><b><font color="#009900">echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn</font></b></pre>
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</blockquote>
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You must arrange for that command to be executed at system boot. Most distributions
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have a method for doing that -- on RedHat, you make an entry in /etc/sysctl.conf.<br>
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<br>
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<blockquote>
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<pre><b><font color="#009900">net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1<br><br></font></b></pre>
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</blockquote>
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Entries in /etc/shorewall/ecn have two columns as follows:<br>
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<br>
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INTERFACE - The name of an interface on your system<br>
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<br>
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HOST(S) - An address (host or subnet)
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of a system or group of systems accessed through the interface in the
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first column. You may include a comma-separated list of such addresses in
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this column. <br>
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<br>
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Example: Your external interface is eth0 and you want to disable ECN for
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tcp connections to 192.0.2.0/24:<br>
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<br>
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In /etc/shorewall/ecn:<br>
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<br>
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<blockquote>
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<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1">
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top"><b>INTERFACE<br>
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</b></td>
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<td valign="top"><b>HOST(S)<br>
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</b></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">eth0<br>
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</td>
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<td valign="top">192.0.2.0/24<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<br>
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</blockquote>
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<font size="2">Last updated 3/28/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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<p><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">Copyright</font> © <font
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size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a><br>
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</p>
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</body>
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