linux-kernel - Re: time for TCP ECN defaulting to on?

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Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:16:59 +0100 (CET)
From:	Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@....pp.se>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-net@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time for TCP ECN defaulting to on?

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> I believe you can forget about ECN in core networks as long as these 
> searches fail:

A lot of ISPs use MPLS yes, but it would be a simplification to say that 
it's useless without MPLS support, because it's quite common that 
congestion happens at the interconnections/borders between ISPs and they 
are very rarely MPLS-labeled.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@....pp.se