From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: time for TCP ECN defaulting to on? Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:33:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87k5bfppv2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <6278d2220811040632u7a36d68ekad5de517fd0671bb@mail.gmail.com> <20081105.151015.206163697.davem@davemloft.net> <4914240F.7050701@blueteddy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ilpo =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=A4rvinen?= , Mikael Abrahamsson , David Miller , daniel.blueman@gmail.com, LKML , Netdev , linux-net@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Hudson Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4914240F.7050701@blueteddy.net> (Dave Hudson's message of "Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:18:39 +0000") Sender: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Dave Hudson writes: > > Not all of the routers in question (the ones that crash, block packets > or otherwise misbehave) are provided by ISPs - in fact a huge number > of them are and have been sold retail. Over time most of those boxes > will get replaced with ones that don't have the problem because most > (probably all major) SOHO router suppliers now test that they don't > break with ECN so eventually there will be a point where enabling ECN > by default will make a lot of sense (there will be too few broken > routers to care about). One option would be also to enable it by default for IPv6 only. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com