On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:23:05PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > Neil Spring wrote on Sat Sep 01, 2001 um 12:34:40PM: > > > being turned off behind my back. ECN doesn't need any > > more inertia slowing its deployment. It's already an > > experimental, off by default, addition to the kernel. > > Why do many people think that it is OFF by default? because it is. > The fact is, it is ON (see kernel docs) and it breaks with many sites. > We could live long without this experimental feature, so why _force_ the > users to use the feature now and make a stable distribution with limited > networking ability? blah blah blah. its only on by default if you turn on the CONFIG_ECN option in the kernel which is OFF by default (and still hidden behind experimental apparently. and again woody ships with a 2.2 kernel which doesn't even have that option. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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