Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:45:35 -0500 | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) |
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:04:17AM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > James Sutherland wrote: [snip] > > those firewalls should be updated to allow ECN-enabled packets > > through. However, to break connectivity to such sites deliberately just > > because they are not supporting an *experimental* extension to the current > > protocols is rather silly. > > Do keep in mind, we aren't breaking connectivity, they are.
Thats the crux of the argument. No one made them run a firewall, they chose one that blocks undefined behavior. The Internet is a dynamic system, they broke the end-to-end model with their firewall, the onus is on them to keep up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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