From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:58:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:58:45 -0500 Received: from wire.cadcamlab.org ([156.26.20.181]:43787 "EHLO wire.cadcamlab.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:58:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:57:53 -0600 To: James Sutherland Cc: jamal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) Message-ID: <20010129065752.A10024@cadcamlab.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from jas88@cam.ac.uk on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:29:52PM +0000 From: Peter Samuelson Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [James Sutherland] > That depends what you mean by "retry"; I wanted the ability to > attempt a non-ECN connection. i.e. if I'm a mailserver, and try > connecting to one of Hotmail's MX hosts with ECN, I'll get RST every > time. I would like to be able to retry with ECN disabled for that > connection. So write a script to disable ECN via sysctl, retry your outgoing MTA queue, and re-enable ECN. Run it via cron about once a day. Peter - 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/