Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:22:59 +0100 | From | Frank v Waveren <> | Subject | Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN |
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Why? Why not just zero them, and get both security and compatibility... > Eeek! NO!!!! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! > For ECN that would have worked, but that doesn't mean that something > couldn't have been implimented there that wouldn't have worked that way.. > I think that older Checkpoint firewalls (perhaps current?) zeroed out SACK > on 'hide nat'ed connections. This causes unreasonable stalls for users on > SACK enabled clients. Not cool.
Point taken. So much for thinking simple... :-}
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