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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Perry Lorier" <perryl@google.com>,
	"Matt Mathis" <mattmathis@google.com>,
	"Yuchung Cheng" <ycheng@google.com>,
	"Neal Cardwell" <ncardwell@google.com>,
	"Tom Herbert" <therbert@google.com>,
	"Wilmer van der Gaast" <wilmer@google.com>,
	"Dave Täht" <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>,
	"Ankur Jain" <jankur@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: be more strict before accepting ECN negociation
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 11:09:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA41B5B.5080103@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336144442.3752.348.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On 05/04/2012 08:14 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet<edumazet@google.com>
>
> It appears some networks play bad games with the two bits reserved for
> ECN. This can trigger false congestion notifications and very slow
> transferts.
>
> Since RFC 3168 (6.1.1) forbids SYN packets to carry CT bits, we can
> disable TCP ECN negociation if it happens we receive mangled CT bits in
> the SYN packet.

What sort of networks were these?  Any chance it was some sort of 
attempt to add ECN to FastOpen?

rick jones

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 15:14 [PATCH net-next] tcp: be more strict before accepting ECN negociation Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 15:54 ` Neal Cardwell
2012-05-04 16:06 ` David Miller
2012-05-04 18:09 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2012-05-04 18:23   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 18:48     ` Rick Jones
2012-05-04 19:05       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 20:20         ` Rick Jones
2012-05-04 20:36           ` Rick Jones
2012-05-04 20:49             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 21:01               ` Rick Jones
2012-05-04 21:14                 ` Eric Dumazet

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