> > I was not suggesting ignoring these. OTOH, there is no reason to treat an
> > RST packet as "go away and never ever send traffic to this host again" -
> > i.e. trying another TCP connection, this time with ECN disabled, would be
> > acceptable.
>
> Using a different source port number, even.
But that has to be done on the application level, which means we need a
socket option to not use ECN. It is not acceptable that the kernel changes
the port number of a socket which already has one, or any application which
uses getsockname() on the connecting socket will horribly break.[1]
Olaf
[1] and this means any application using libsocks5, so nobody tell me "no
sane application does need this".
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