ECN bits are represented in the TOS field. I think you can use setsockopt
with the IP_TOS option to set the TOS field on a socket. See ip(7). On the
Go side, use the SyscallConn method on your UDPConn, then call setsockopt
using the Control method. Something like this (untested):
https://play.golang.org/p/6_R-zlBSibv

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:30 PM <martenseem...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a Go implementation of the QUIC protocol (
> https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go). QUIC specifies how to use ECN
> (Explicit Congestion Notification) to detect and respond to congestion in
> the network (see
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-29#section-13.4 for
> details on that).
>
> As far as I can see, there's no way to read (and write) the ECN bits from
> the IP header, unless I use a raw socket, which would be a suboptimal
> solution for many reasons.
> The closest I could get to extracting information from the IP header was
> by using *UDPConn.ReadFromUDP* and then using *golang.org/x/net/ipv4
> <http://golang.org/x/net/ipv4>* to parse the *oob* bytes into an
> *ipv4.ControlMessage* (or equivalently for IPv6). This at least gives me
> access to the TTL field. It seems like this approach is insufficient to get
> access to the ECN bits though.
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
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