Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

David S. Miller
2001-01-26T14:51:55Z

Lars Marowsky-Bree writes:
> That would mean that the people worried about this should write a
> wrapper-library for the connect() call, and maybe add a no_ecn flag to a
> socket, and leave the kernel alone.

I'm not adding a no_ecn option for sockets. See my response
to Matti Aarnio earlier today on this list for the
reasons why.

People must fix their firewalls, there is no other way to
fix the problem and get ECN properly deployed. I'm ceasing
conversation on this thread from this point forward.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com