From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:05:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:43 -0500 Received: from palrel1.hp.com ([156.153.255.242]:18443 "HELO palrel1.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3A71BC34.F8024103@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:04:36 -0800 From: Rick Jones Organization: the Unofficial HP X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.00 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Hafting Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN In-Reply-To: <94qcvm$9qp$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <14960.54069.369317.517425@pizda.ninka.net> <3A70D524.11362EFB@transmeta.com> <14960.54852.630103.360704@pizda.ninka.net> <3A70D7B2.F8C5F67C@transmeta.com> <14960.56461.296642.488513@pizda.ninka.net> <3A70DDC4.6D1DB1EC@transmeta.com> <3A713B3F.24AC9C35@idb.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > As David pointed out, it is "reserved for future use - you must set > these bits to zero and not use it _for your own purposes_. For non-rfc > use of these bits _will_ break something the day we start using them > for something useful. > > So, no reason for a firewall author to check these bits. I thought that most firewalls were supposed to be insanely paranoid. Perhaps it would be considered a possible covert data channel, as farfecthed as that may sound. rick jones -- ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/misc/rachel/ these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to email, OR post, but please do NOT do BOTH... my email address is raj in the cup.hp.com domain... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/