See below Jared Mauch
On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:13 PM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote: >> Router(config)# policy-map pol1 >> Router(config-pmap)# class class-default >> Router(config-pmap-c)# bandwidth per 70 >> Router(config-pmap-c)# random-detect >> Router(config-pmap-c)# random-detect ecn >> >> Requires other bits in the network to be ECN aware, but if they are, >> good stuff. >> >> -- > > +1 > > There is no excuse these days for stuff not to be ECN aware. That GREATLY > mitigates things as it makes hosts aware pretty much immediately that there > is congestion and they don't have to wait for a lost packet to time out. I > brought it up to a Brocade engineer once asking for the option to set ECN > rather than drop the packet and he said "nobody uses it". I told him nobody > uses it because you don't have the feature available. How can anyone use it > if you don't have the feature? > > > This sounds a lot like most peoples ipv6 rationale as well. I'm still feeling some scars from last time Ecn was enabled in my hosts. Many firewalls would eat packets with. Ecn enabled.
