Re: [PATCH] document ECN in 2.4 Configure.help

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 06:02:47 EST


> with the TCP ECN_ECHO and CWR flags set, to indicate
> ECN-capability, then the sender should send its second
> SYN packet without these flags set. This is because

Now that is nice. The end user perceived effect is that folks with faulty
firewalls have horrible slow web sites with a 3 or 4 second wait for each
page. The perfect incentive. If only someone could do the same to path mtu
discovery incompetents.

Alan

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