Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> > First, you are ignoring a TCP_RST, which means "stop trying".
> 
> That's why we stop when we receive the second TCP RST.
> It's just like dropping due to congestion, which is of course perfectly
> safe in moderation.
> 

No, you can't issue multiple connects in response to a single socket
option.  One can argue that it would have been OK for these firewalls to
drop ECN packets, but replying with RST is just too broken to live.

        -hpa

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