Ubuntu
autorun4linuxcd package

  1. Bug #264019
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 264019

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Forest Bond (forest-bond) wrote : Re: unable to visit some websites and ftpsites with 2.6.27

bobbyjean58,

The standard place for this kind of setting is in /etc/sysctl.conf. Add the following line to that file:

net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0

This is preferred over /etc/init.d/rc.local (actually, you may want to change /etc/rc.local instead of that file, too).

I agree, though. Ubuntu is supposed to be easy to use, and editing /etc/sysctl.conf is outside of the what many users ought to be reasonably considered to do. I understand that this is ultimately a router bug, but why aren't other OS's affected? Do they also fail to set the timestamp header?