Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Matti Aarnio
2001-01-26T19:18:09Z

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
...
> Cisco: If I buy a _new_ PIIX oder LDIR today, do I get an ECN capable
> IOS or not? If not, will my CCNA know about this and upgrade my Box
> before deploying?

That cisco box is called PIX -- PIIX sounds like some intel thing..
Current baseline binary contains ECN, and CCNA may or may not know it.

Oh yes, PIX code is not IOS, it is something else -- because it wasn't
Cisco product originally, but something what Cisco bought...

I haven't followed up on what Local Directory product it, probably same
PC hardware (+ disk) as PIX, but a bit different software suite.

> Everyone I know and their brothers, that use Cisco Equipment, have a
> support contract with Cisco. Why not push an "mandatory upgrade" along
> this path once the ECN leaves "experimental" status.

Bruhaha... PIX has MailGuard feature, which fucks up SMTP protocol
royally in some old versions. I see that buggy version still running
deployed even though fixes were done back in May 1998 ...
(http://www.zmailer.org/cisco-pix.html)

Why do I see it ? VGER's ZMailer uses extensively that "rare" extended
SMTP feature which is where it happens, and my employer runs that same
software in couple large ISP SMTP relays..

> Regards
> Henning

/Matti Aarnio