Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2001-01-26T06:39:36,
   "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> The RST frame does not indicate why it happened, so you may not intuit
> the reason, "retry" the connection, or anything else like that.  It
> means connection failed, and we must return error from connect().
> 
> Nothing else is acceptable.

That would mean that the people worried about this should write a
wrapper-library for the connect() call, and maybe add a no_ecn flag to a
socket, and leave the kernel alone.

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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