Re: [PATCH] document ECN in 2.4 Configure.help

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 21:38:35 EST


In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011060113240.8248-100000@waste.org> you wrote:
> I'm still not sure why it's been decided not to do fallback or how this
> whole situation is any different from path MTU discovery.

Because this will add a Fallback (non ECN) packet to every denied target. I
think this is bad policy at least. It might violate the RFCs, too. Keep in
mind, we cannot recognice a rejection due to ECN.

Greetings
Bernd
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