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Subject: Re: [PATCH] document ECN in 2.4 Configure.help
To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton)
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>        with the TCP ECN_ECHO and CWR flags set, to indicate
>        ECN-capability, then the sender should send its second
>        SYN packet without these flags set. This is because

Now that is nice. The end user perceived effect is that folks with faulty 
firewalls have horrible slow web sites with a 3 or 4 second wait for each
page. The perfect incentive. If only someone could do the same to path mtu
discovery incompetents.

Alan

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