From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:51:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:51:46 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:25746 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:51:33 -0500 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14961.36535.775060.43153@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:50:31 -0800 (PST) To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: Jamie Lokier , James Sutherland , Matti Aarnio , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN In-Reply-To: <20010126154613.M3849@marowsky-bree.de> In-Reply-To: <14961.24658.319734.448248@pizda.ninka.net> <14961.25754.449497.640325@pizda.ninka.net> <20010126151058.A6331@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <14961.35880.887884.1405@pizda.ninka.net> <20010126154613.M3849@marowsky-bree.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lars Marowsky-Bree writes: > That would mean that the people worried about this should write a > wrapper-library for the connect() call, and maybe add a no_ecn flag to a > socket, and leave the kernel alone. I'm not adding a no_ecn option for sockets. See my response to Matti Aarnio earlier today on this list for the reasons why. People must fix their firewalls, there is no other way to fix the problem and get ECN properly deployed. I'm ceasing conversation on this thread from this point forward. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/