Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[James Sutherland]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> James Sutherland writes:
>  > I was not suggesting ignoring these. OTOH, there is no reason to treat an
>  > RST packet as "go away and never ever send traffic to this host again" -
>  > i.e. trying another TCP connection, this time with ECN disabled, would be
>  > acceptable.
> 
> The connection failed, RST means connection reset.  RST means all
> state is corrupt and this connection must die.  It cannot be
> interpreted in any other way.

Obviously. The connection is now dead. However, trying to make a new
connection with different settings is perfectly reasonable.

> Using it as a metric for ECN enabling is thus unacceptable.

Why? The connection is dead, but there is nothing to prevent attempting
another connection.

James.