On 18 Jun, this message from Alan Cox echoed through cyberspace:
>> Are you sure you're not running a 2.4 kernel with ECN (Explicit
>> Congestion Notification) turned on? Or Bill has it on on his server?
>>
>> This 'feature' has randomly prevented lots of people from accessing
>> various sites....
>
> Its an IETF standard. If it causes problems the other site is broken, and there
> are actually very few problems sites now that cisco fixed their code.
I didn't imply anything different. But whoever is to blame, breaking
things for lots of people is IMHO not a good way to push standards. But
let's not start a flame war on this ;-)
> Especially
> as their was a cisco security alert later that made people pick up the change
Cisco dosn't provide that much information about ECN-compatible IOS
versions..... Are they ashamed?
Michel
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