Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Juri Haberland
2001-01-25T07:38:16Z

Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> Just curious if others have noticed that hotmail is unable to deal with
> ECN and wondering if this is a standard that should be encouraged, as in
> should I tell hotmail that perhaps they should look into supporting it, or
> should I not waste my breath and echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn?

Forget it. I mailed them and this is the answer:

"As ECN is not a widely used internet standard, and as Cisco does not
have a stable OS for their routers that accepts ECN, anyone attempting
to access our site through a gateway or from a computer that uses ECN
will be unable to do so."

Juri

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