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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 0/2] net: allow setting ecn via routing table
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:15:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030221501.GA9416@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414703260.15352.9.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 21:52 +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> 
> > So, what about changing the default to 1 in net-next?
> > 
> > We could add automatic 'no-ecn' to retransmitted syns to avoid
> > ecn blackholes (Daniel Borkmann has a patch for this), and, in case
> > ecn=1 causes too much breakage we can always revert (and re-consider ecn
> > per route settings as an intermediate step).
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I think this is way too dangerous.
> 
> I played a lot with ECN in the past (and fixed number of bugs in linux)
> and discovered many times I had to disable it to be able to surf the
> Internet.
[..]
> Reverting might take a long long time, it wont help people stuck behind
> buggy equipment.

Do you think a fallback to non-ecn for retransmitted syns would help?
If not, do you think having ecn tunable available via route is helpful?

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-25 22:38 [PATCH -next 0/2] net: allow setting ecn via routing table Florian Westphal
2014-10-25 22:38 ` [PATCH -next 1/2] syncookies: remove ecn_ok validation when decoding option timestamp Florian Westphal
2014-10-25 22:38 ` [PATCH -next 2/2] net: allow setting ecn via routing table Florian Westphal
2014-10-28 20:57 ` [PATCH -next 0/2] " David Miller
2014-10-29 12:23   ` Florian Westphal
2014-10-30 19:59     ` David Miller
2014-10-30 20:52       ` Florian Westphal
2014-10-30 21:07         ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-30 22:15           ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-10-30 23:05             ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-30 23:16               ` Florian Westphal
2014-10-30 23:30                 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-31  3:49                   ` David Miller
2014-10-31  9:24               ` Daniel Borkmann

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