netdev - Re: time for TCP ECN defaulting to on?

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Message-ID: <8763mzx5l7.fsf@obelix.mork.no>
Date:	Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:12:20 +0100
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@....pp.se>
Cc:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	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?

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@....pp.se> writes:

> I have sent an email (which will hopefully initiate a discussion) to a
> mailinglist populated by a lot of the operational ISP community and
> asked around about ECN and views on that. I also checked around on
> core router platforms (Cisco 12000 and Cisco CRS-1, which definitely
> is two of the top three core router platforms deployed in the world)
> and it seems they do not support ECN as far as I can discern.

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

 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rfc+5129%22+site%3Acisco.com
 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rfc+5129%22+site%3Ajuniper.net



Bjørn
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