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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: split tcp_ecn sysctl knob to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 00:58:02 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:05:38PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:35:33 +0100
> Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> 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 <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
> 
> Any new or modified sysctl should be documented in:
>   Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

Ack. I'll wait a bit for further feedback and will submit a -v2 with updated
documentation.