Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

David S. Miller
2001-01-26T13:56:19Z

James Sutherland writes:
> I was not suggesting ignoring these. OTOH, there is no reason to treat an
> RST packet as "go away and never ever send traffic to this host again" -
> i.e. trying another TCP connection, this time with ECN disabled, would be
> acceptable.

The connection failed, RST means connection reset. RST means all
state is corrupt and this connection must die. It cannot be
interpreted in any other way.

Using it as a metric for ECN enabling is thus unacceptable.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com