From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: split tcp_ecn sysctl knob to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:05:38 -0800 Message-ID: <20121231140538.6e55c82d@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <20121231173532.GA11700@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:47954 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751090Ab2LaWHA (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:07:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20121231173532.GA11700@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:35:33 +0100 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > ECN could be more reliable when used with IPv6 (I don't have proofs). For > people who want to try ECN with IPv6 but still have problems connecting > to destinations because of broken IPv4 routers this switch allows one > to enable ECN just for IPv6. > > Perhaps ECN could be enabled by default in future. > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Any new or modified sysctl should be documented in: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt