Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:02:27 -0500 | From | "David L. Nicol" <> | Subject | automatic per-connection ECN disabling |
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I like the promise of explicit notification of congestion, and have enabled ECN on my computer. However, I am always forgetting it is on and getting paranoid before I remember it and turn it off in order to communicate with a server behind a non-ECN firewall.
How difficult would it be, I wonder, to set the TCP stack to attempt a non-ECN connection if the first SYN does not come back in reasonable time? That is, send the second (or third) initial SYN without the ECN option?
In effect it would be a third ECN mode besides on and off: Auto.
And it would make a good default.
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