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From: Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ECN for servers ?
Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:11:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ofw4nccy.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010214190128.G923@ppetru.net> <96eqhm$33k$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <96eqhm$33k$1@cesium.transmeta.com> ("H. Peter Anvin"'s message of "14 Feb 2001 12:41:26 -0800")

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Con: people behind broken firewalls can't connect.

Are you sure that is correct?  "Servers" normally listen for incoming
connections from clients rather than establish them[1]. So, if the
server implements ECN then it will respond appropriately to incoming
SYN packets irrespective of whether the ECN bits are set. People, who
use ECN, who are behind a broken firewall will have problems
connecting irrespective of whether or not the server implements ECN.


[1] Passive FTP being an exception.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-14 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-14 17:01 ECN for servers ? Petru Paler
2001-02-14 20:19 ` James Stevenson
2001-02-14 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-14 20:53   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-14 21:00     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-14 21:09     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-14 22:11   ` Graham Murray [this message]

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