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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:57:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010129065752.A10024@cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101280700580.24762-100000@shell.cyberus.ca> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101281324210.26837-100000@yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101281324210.26837-100000@yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk>; from jas88@cam.ac.uk on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:29:52PM +0000


[James Sutherland]
> That depends what you mean by "retry"; I wanted the ability to
> attempt a non-ECN connection. i.e. if I'm a mailserver, and try
> connecting to one of Hotmail's MX hosts with ECN, I'll get RST every
> time.  I would like to be able to retry with ECN disabled for that
> connection.

So write a script to disable ECN via sysctl, retry your outgoing MTA
queue, and re-enable ECN.  Run it via cron about once a day.

Peter
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-29 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-28  0:14 ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) jamal
2001-01-28  8:56 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 12:18   ` jamal
2001-01-28 13:29     ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 14:34       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-01-28 16:44         ` James Sutherland
2001-01-29  7:32           ` David S. Miller
2001-01-29 12:30             ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-29 18:31             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-29 19:02               ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-01-29 19:27               ` George
2001-01-29 19:59                 ` Alex Pennace
2001-01-28 14:54       ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-28 16:15       ` jamal
2001-01-28 17:11         ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 18:07           ` jamal
2001-01-28 20:13           ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-29  2:58         ` David Lang
2001-01-29  7:20           ` David S. Miller
2001-01-28 19:42       ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-29  0:14         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-31 18:02         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-03 16:51           ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-01-29 12:57       ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2001-01-28 17:39     ` Rogier Wolff
2001-01-28 18:01       ` Graham Murray
2001-01-28 18:08       ` jamal
2001-01-28 18:23         ` Rogier Wolff
2001-01-28 18:38           ` jamal
2001-01-28 20:18         ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 21:33           ` ECN fixes for Cisco gear Dax Kelson
2001-01-28 22:09             ` ECN connectivity surveys Dax Kelson
2001-01-28 21:45           ` ECN fixes for Cisco gear Lincoln Dale
2001-01-28 14:04   ` ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) Ben Ford
2001-01-28 14:09     ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 15:38       ` Ben Ford
2001-01-28 19:55       ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 19:45     ` Gregory Maxwell

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