Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

[CaT]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:59:01AM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1100, CaT wrote:
> > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn 
> > 1
> > 
> > and I can contact hotmail just fine. I also can ftp to your site
> > non-passively. where should I go to on hotmail to see it fail?
> 
> You may be located behind a firewall that zeroes out the ECN bits. This would
> mean that hotmail doesn't get ECN packets and the connection gets established
> just as if you were talking to a plain non-ECN server without a firewall.

gozer IS my firewall. :) beyond it is a modem and a dailup point, my ISPs
LAN and then the innanet. and I tried from it and from a box behind it.
I connected to hotmail just fine.

still, any way to test if the ECN bits are going through just fine?

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