Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[Matti Aarnio]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
... 
> Cisco: If I buy a _new_ PIIX oder LDIR today, do I get an ECN capable
> IOS or not? If not, will my CCNA know about this and upgrade my Box
> before deploying?

  That cisco box is called  PIX -- PIIX sounds like some intel thing..
  Current baseline binary contains ECN, and CCNA may or may not know it.

  Oh yes, PIX code is not IOS, it is something else -- because it wasn't
  Cisco product originally, but something what Cisco bought...

  I haven't followed up on what Local Directory product it, probably same
  PC hardware (+ disk) as PIX, but a bit different software suite.

> Everyone I know and their brothers, that use Cisco Equipment, have a
> support contract with Cisco. Why not push an "mandatory upgrade" along
> this path once the ECN leaves "experimental" status.

  Bruhaha...  PIX has MailGuard feature, which fucks up SMTP protocol
  royally in some old versions.  I see that buggy version still running
  deployed even though fixes were done back in May 1998 ...
  (http://www.zmailer.org/cisco-pix.html)

  Why do I see it ?  VGER's ZMailer uses extensively that "rare" extended
  SMTP feature which is where it happens, and my employer runs that same
  software in couple large ISP SMTP relays..

> 	Regards
> 		Henning

/Matti Aarnio