Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:32:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:32:34 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:58842 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:32:33 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:26:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20030222.152626.100079402.davem@redhat.com> To: wa@almesberger.net Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1 - ECN and retransmit of SYN From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030222154539.H2791@almesberger.net> References: <1045874822.25411.3.camel@rth.ninka.net> <200302220048.h1M0mjCu020837@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20030222154539.H2791@almesberger.net> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 16 From: Werner Almesberger Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:45:39 -0300 4) Back off quickly (i.e. disable ECN on first retry), but keep track of whom you had to do this for. Then use some clever user-mode strategy module to act on this information. (E.g. send a list of ECN offenders to root, or raise the threshold value for turning off ECN for destinations that seem to accept ECN in general, but suffer high losses.) Time to write an ipt_ECNLOG.c netfilter module :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/