On 14 Feb 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> By author: Petru Paler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, will
> > any clients (with broken firewalls) be affected if a SMTP/HTTP server
> > has ECN enabled ?
> Pro: better behaviour in presence of network congestion.
>
> Con: people behind broken firewalls can't connect.
Since you can use ICMP to tunnel data, a lot of security ppl are
reluctant to stop filtering ICMP :/
Jeff
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