Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

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Subject: Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default
From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: 05 Sep 2001 14:37:28 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010901160126.741862FD22@lyta.coker.com.au> (Russell Coker's message of "Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:01:26 +0200")
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Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:

> Why should the default configuration be changed to account for the 
> diminishing number of broken routers on the net?

>From a technical behavior, throwing away packets with unknown protocol
flags is perfectly acceptable in any case and even reasonable in some
environments.

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