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 14:55:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:55:19 -0500 Received: from mta7.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.5.22]:22250 "EHLO mta7") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:55:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:15:28 -0500 From: Alan Shutko Subject: Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN In-Reply-To: <200101261753.JAA11559@adam.yggdrasil.com> To: "Adam J. Richter" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@redhat.com, hpa@transmeta.com Message-id: <87hf2mw56n.fsf@wesley.springies.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.95 In-Reply-To: <200101261753.JAA11559@adam.yggdrasil.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Adam J. Richter" writes: > I am surprised that anyone is seriously considering denying > service to sites that do not implement an _experimental_ facility > and have firewalls that try to play things safe by dropping packets > which have 1's in bit positions that in the RFC "must be zero." I don't think people are seriously worried whether site implement ECN right now. But it would be much nicer to those that _want_ to implement it were fascist firewalls to set those bits to zero, rather than sending RSTs back or dripping the packet. -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! Silver's law: If Murphy's law can go wrong it will. - 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/