Re: [Sheflug] ECN D'oh!

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sunday 02 Sep 2001 2:28 pm, you wrote:

> Blueyonder's servers are unreachable if ECN is on ... there may be other
> machines out on the net as well that have problems. I've got it switched
> off until the internet as a whole supports ECN :)

Basically any equipment that does not support ECN is a horribly broken TCP/IP 
implementation and you should ask your hardware vendor/ISP to fix it. ECN is 
designed so that it should work with old kit, but some equipment decides to 
zero every header field it doesn't understand. Which is so stupid it makes me 
want to take a lie down just thinking about it. :)

Mind you, getting in touch with an actual "engineer" at an ISP these days is 
nigh on impossible anyway.
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