On Monday 28 July 2003 12:13, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Could one of you briefly describe ECN and/or point me to a link? I > have never heard of it.
It's described in RFC 3168: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt (also in 2418 which is replaced by 3168 but has a short summary that is IMO a bit easier to understand.) In short, it's a mechanism to actively signal network congestion instead of implicitly signalling by dropping packets. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
