From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hannes@stressinduktion.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: split tcp_ecn sysctl knob to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:53:50 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130103.045350.1322196416782379673.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130103122844.GH4464@order.stressinduktion.org>
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:28:44 +0100
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:00:09AM +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.
>>
>> No code changes since initial submission, just added documentation.
>
> May I ask what lead to the rejection of the patch?
I don't see any value in splitting up ipv4 and ipv6.
I think we should turn the existing knob on unliaterally
by default. That would be a much better patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 0:00 [PATCH v2] tcp: split tcp_ecn sysctl knob to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6 Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-03 12:28 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-03 12:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-01-03 12:58 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-03 16:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-03 16:58 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-06 1:31 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-03 12:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-03 12:57 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-01-03 13:13 ` Eric Dumazet
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