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Re: Smallest Transit MTU
From: John Kristoff <jtk () northwestern edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:41:37 -0600
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:00:22 -0500 "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com> wrote:
A naive reader might think from Dan's posting that the Internet didn't work at all before ECN was codified (experimental with RFC 2481 in January 1999 and standards-track with RFC 3168 in September 2001).
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ECN has always looked to me like a solution in search of a problem, which may be why so few people have their panties in a bunch over non-support of it.
It's not just that ECN isn't supported that is the problem, it's when systems by default reject packets with reserved bits set. While you may pan ECN, it or something else that might enhance Internet protocols like it in the future should typically be silently ignored by end hosts that don't understand them so those experiments can at least take place. <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/bcp/bcp60.txt> I also suspect that a very small population of users who would benefit from ECN are hanging out in places like NANOG so your view of ECN desirability may be limited. John
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- Re: Smallest Transit MTU, (continued)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Joe Abley (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Tony Rall (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Joe Abley (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Edward B. Dreger (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Dan Hollis (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Dan Hollis (Dec 29)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Robert E . Seastrom (Dec 30)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU John Kristoff (Dec 30)
- RE: Smallest Transit MTU David Schwartz (Dec 30)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU John Kristoff (Dec 30)
- RE: Smallest Transit MTU David Schwartz (Dec 30)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Robert E . Seastrom (Dec 30)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU John Kristoff (Dec 30)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Robert E . Seastrom (Dec 31)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Robert E . Seastrom (Dec 30)
- RE: Smallest Transit MTU Scott Weeks (Dec 30)
- RE: Smallest Transit MTU Matthew Kaufman (Dec 30)
- RE: Smallest Transit MTU David Schwartz (Dec 30)
- Re: Smallest Transit MTU Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 30)