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List:       gentoo-sparc
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-sparc] SOLVED: TCP connect() times out
From:       "David S. Miller" <davem () redhat ! com>
Date:       2005-07-11 1:52:00
Message-ID: 20050710.215200.71107742.davem () redhat ! com
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From: Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:06:18 -0700 (PDT)

> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > You should inform the person running the firewall in between your 
> > two systems to get their stuff fixed.  Silently dropping packets 
> > with the TCP ECN bits set is illegal.
> 
> OK. I'll bite. Can you provide me a pointer that spells out the 
> legal[1] ramifications of dropping ECN bits?
> 
> -- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>
> 
> [1] Legal in the sense of criminal or civil code, not in the sense of
>      RFC 3360.

I didn't mean it was illegal in the sense of criminal or
civil code.  I can't believe that in a technical discussion
you would intepret illegal in that way, that's just silly.
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