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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:41:02 -0700

> Please no, it makes the socket option useless.
> If you want to tag some "bad apples" thats okay, but would need
> some more infrastructure.

The behavior of the TCP stack is a system wide decision.

If anything it should be "everything besides the default
and Reno are offlimits to unprivileged users" with an
administrative method to override that.