Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

From: Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 03:56:54 EST


mirabilos wrote:

> Correct - and additionally: what's about Win 95-ME, NT, W2K; *BSD?
> When I'm end user they don't block an ECN connection I thought, or do they?
> Idea: some1 makes up a web server.
> - If I can connect ECN is working
> - On the site I can enter my mail addy and get a mail there. If it arrives, everything is ok.
>

Don't worry. NT, W2K, etc. have no problems with ECN. They may not use
the ECN information, but they have no problem with packets using ECN.
The problem is some paranoid firewalls that drop ECN packets - no
matter what the os is on the machine you are trying to reach.

Helge Hafting
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