Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[David S. Miller]

James Sutherland writes:
 > 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.

The connection failed, RST means connection reset.  RST means all
state is corrupt and this connection must die.  It cannot be
interpreted in any other way.

Using it as a metric for ECN enabling is thus unacceptable.

Later,
David S. Miller
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