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From: Mika Liljeberg <mika.liljeberg@welho.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1 - ECN and retransmit of SYN
Date: 21 Feb 2003 23:43:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045863838.22625.121.camel@devil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302212040.h1LKejY3001679@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:40, John Bradford wrote:
> > Supporting this would make using ECN a lot less painful - currently, if
> > I want to use ECN by default, I get to turn it off anytime I find an
> > ECN-hostile site that I'd like to communicate with.
> 
> Linux shouldn't encourage the use of equipment that violates RFCs, in
> this case, RFC 739.
> 
> The correct way to deal with it, is to contact the maintainers of the
> site, and ask them to fix the non conforming equipment.

That's right. Unfortunately, the way most people *will* deal with it is
by turning ECN off permanently and forgetting about it. That won't help
ECN become widely adopted.

	MikaL


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-21 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.lnpabmu.5sd1q@ifi.uio.no>
2003-02-21 20:13 ` RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1 - ECN and retransmit of SYN Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-21 20:40   ` John Bradford
2003-02-21 20:53     ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2003-02-21 21:25       ` John Bradford
2003-02-22  0:47         ` David S. Miller
2003-02-22  0:48           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-22  6:46             ` David S. Miller
2003-02-22 18:45             ` Werner Almesberger
2003-02-22 23:26               ` David S. Miller
2003-02-22 10:56           ` John Bradford
2003-02-22 10:47             ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21 21:43     ` Mika Liljeberg [this message]
2003-02-21 22:05       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-21 22:32         ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-02-23  4:57   ` Kevin Buhr
2003-02-21 21:37 jordan.breeding

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