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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<article id="ECN">
<!--$Id$-->
<articleinfo>
<title>ECN</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>2003-03-28</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<section>
<title>Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)</title>
<para>Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) is described in RFC 3168 and
is a proposed internet standard. Unfortunately, not all sites support ECN
and when a TCP connection offering ECN is sent to sites that don&#39;t
support it, the result is often that the connection request is ignored.</para>
<para>To allow ECN to be used, Shorewall allows you to enable ECN on your
Linux systems then disable it in your firewall when the destination
matches a list that you create (the /etc/shorewall/ecn file).</para>
<para>You enable ECN by</para>
<programlisting>echo 1 &#62; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn</programlisting>
<para>You must arrange for that command to be executed at system boot.
Most distributions have a method for doing that -- on RedHat, you make an
entry in /etc/sysctl.conf.</para>
<programlisting>net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1</programlisting>
<para>Entries in /etc/shorewall/ecn have two columns as follows:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>INTERFACE</term>
<listitem>
<para>The name of an interface on your system</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>HOST(S)</term>
<listitem>
<para>An address (host or subnet) of a system or group of systems
accessed through the interface in the first column. You may include
a comma-separated list of such addresses in this column.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<example>
<title>Your external interface is eth0 and you want to disable ECN for
tcp connections to 192.0.2.0/24:</title>
<para><table><title>/etc/shorewall/ecn</title><tgroup cols="2"><thead><row><entry
align="center">INTERFACE</entry><entry align="center">HOST(S)</entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry>eth0</entry><entry>192.0.2.0/24</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></para>
</example>
</section>
</article>