Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[James Sutherland]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> On 2001-01-26T15:08:21,
>    James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Obviously. The connection is now dead. However, trying to make a new
> > connection with different settings is perfectly reasonable.
> 
> No.
> 
> If connect() suddenly did two connection attempts instead of one, just how
> many timeouts might that break?

None. You time the request out as normal, if it does time out.

> > Why? The connection is dead, but there is nothing to prevent attempting
> > another connection.
> 
> Right. And thats why connect() returns an error and retries are handled in
> userspace.

Except you can't retry without ECN, because DaveM wants to do a Microsoft
and force ECN on everyone, whether they like it or not. If ECN is so
wonderful, why doesn't anybody actually WANT to use it anyway?


James.

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