Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Olaf Titz
2001-01-26T18:34:04Z

> > 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.
>
> Using a different source port number, even.

But that has to be done on the application level, which means we need a
socket option to not use ECN. It is not acceptable that the kernel changes
the port number of a socket which already has one, or any application which
uses getsockname() on the connecting socket will horribly break.[1]

Olaf

[1] and this means any application using libsocks5, so nobody tell me "no
sane application does need this".