Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2001-01-26T15:13:54Z

On 2001-01-26T15:08:21,
James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> said:

> Obviously. The connection is now dead. However, trying to make a new
> connection with different settings is perfectly reasonable.

No.

If connect() suddenly did two connection attempts instead of one, just how
many timeouts might that break?

> Why? The connection is dead, but there is nothing to prevent attempting
> another connection.

Right. And thats why connect() returns an error and retries are handled in
userspace.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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