At 01:16 AM 7/24/2002, Franck Martin wrote:
I'm not in a campaign to promote ECN, or anything... I'm saying that ISOC
web site is not reachable if you enable ECN, which RFC793(standard) or
RFC3168(proposed Standard) talk about.
I don't want to talk about what is a standard or what is not... What is
compliant or not...
Will there be anybody to volunteer and fix the routers leading to ISOC web
site, mailing lists, e-mail addresses and so on?
RFC3168 is dated September 2001. That's pretty recent. It is likely many
routers have not even been rebooted since then, let alone been updated to
new software revisions. Assuming a new software revision is available that
supports ECN, that new revision would have to be tested and qualified
before being deployed. Sites which insist on ECN will be disappointed for a
long time to come.
That said, such routers really shouldn't choke on the packets. I would
guess it's dropping the packets due to explicit configuration, though.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Daniel Senie dts(_at_)senie(_dot_)com
Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com