Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Alan Shutko
2001-01-26T19:55:29Z

"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> 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.

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