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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:53:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: ECN for servers ?
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On 14 Feb 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> By author:    Petru Paler <ppetru@ppetru.net>
> > What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, will
> > any clients (with broken firewalls) be affected if a SMTP/HTTP server
> > has ECN enabled ?

> Pro: better behaviour in presence of network congestion.
> 
> Con: people behind broken firewalls can't connect.

Since you can use ICMP to tunnel data, a lot of security ppl are
reluctant to stop filtering ICMP :/

	Jeff




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