Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

David S. Miller
2001-01-26T11:52:30Z

James Sutherland writes:
> A delayed retry without ECN might be a good compromise...
>
> Every single connection to ECN-broken sites would work as normal - it
> would just take an extra few seconds. Instead of "Hotmail doesn't
> work!" it becomes "Hrm... Hotmail is fscking slow, but Yahoo is fine. I'll
> use Yahoo". A few million of those, and suddenly Hotmail isn't so hot...

No, as explained in previous emails, no retry scheme can work.

Hotmails failing machines, for example, send RST packets back when
they see ECN. Ignoring valid TCP RST frames is unacceptable and
Linux will not do that as long as I am maintaining it.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com