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

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Message-ID: <87k5bfppv2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:33:53 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Dave Hudson <linux-kernel@...eteddy.net>
Cc:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@....pp.se>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, daniel.blueman@...il.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-net@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time for TCP ECN defaulting to on?

Dave Hudson <linux-kernel@...eteddy.net> writes:
>
> Not all of the routers in question (the ones that crash, block packets
> or otherwise misbehave) are provided by ISPs - in fact a huge number
> of them are and have been sold retail.  Over time most of those boxes
> will get replaced with ones that don't have the problem because most
> (probably all major) SOHO router suppliers now test that they don't
> break with ECN so eventually there will be a point where enabling ECN
> by default will make a lot of sense (there will be too few broken
> routers to care about).

One option would be also to enable it by default for IPv6 only.

-Andi

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