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Message-Id: <20141030.234913.314319804895249709.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:49:13 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: eric.dumazet@...il.com Cc: fw@...len.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 0/2] net: allow setting ecn via routing table From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:30:01 -0700 > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 00:16 +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > >> I see. So that makes ecn=1 default a pure fantasy. > > Well, I had this dream about 2 or 3 years ago, but I eventually came to > this (sad) conclusion. We really should have done this from the beginning, but I guess we lacked the courage to do so. Some security nuts will say that the ECN bits are some covert channel of communication and block connections based upon that, instead of, you know, just clearing the bits. Ok ok, Florian please resubmit your original patches. We'll go with a boolean per-route override. Thanks for taking the time to discuss this with us. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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