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 09:46:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:46:25 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:30984 "HELO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:46:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:46:13 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jamie Lokier , James Sutherland , Matti Aarnio , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN Message-ID: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.3i In-Reply-To: <14961.35880.887884.1405@pizda.ninka.net>; from "David S. Miller" on 2001-01-26T06:39:36 X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2001-01-26T06:39:36, "David S. Miller" said: > The RST frame does not indicate why it happened, so you may not intuit > the reason, "retry" the connection, or anything else like that. It > means connection failed, and we must return error from connect(). > > Nothing else is acceptable. 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. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. -- J. Yahl - 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/