Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753144AbYKGO3W (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:29:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751543AbYKGO3E (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:29:04 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:60858 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751437AbYKGO3C (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:29:02 -0500 To: Dave Hudson Cc: Ilpo =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=A4rvinen?= , Mikael Abrahamsson , David Miller , daniel.blueman@gmail.com, LKML , Netdev , linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: time for TCP ECN defaulting to on? From: Andi Kleen References: <6278d2220811040632u7a36d68ekad5de517fd0671bb@mail.gmail.com> <20081105.151015.206163697.davem@davemloft.net> <4914240F.7050701@blueteddy.net> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:33:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4914240F.7050701@blueteddy.net> (Dave Hudson's message of "Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:18:39 +0000") Message-ID: <87k5bfppv2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 22 Dave Hudson writes: > > Not all of the routers in question (the ones that crash, block packets > or otherwise misbehave) are provided by ISPs - in fact a huge number > of them are and have been sold retail. Over time most of those boxes > will get replaced with ones that don't have the problem because most > (probably all major) SOHO router suppliers now test that they don't > break with ECN so eventually there will be a point where enabling ECN > by default will make a lot of sense (there will be too few broken > routers to care about). One option would be also to enable it by default for IPv6 only. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- 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/