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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] enabling outgoing tcp-ecn by default for ipv6 links
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:37:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121231173729.GB11700@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18172.1356584697@sandelman.ca>

Hello!

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:04:57AM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
> >>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> writes:
>     Hannes> I am thinking about advancing the ipv4/tcp_ecn knob in linux to
>     Hannes> distinguish between ipv4 and ipv6 transport and enable ecn signaling
>     Hannes> on outgoing ipv6 connections by default (for me, at least). I am
>     Hannes> currently doing so with the help of iptables (echo 1 > tcp_ecn and -j
>     Hannes> ECN --ecn-tcp-remove).
> 
> I think it's definitely worth splitting the sysctl, so that we can at
> least learn if it can fly in v6 land.  I'd turn it on.

I had some spare time and posted a patch:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/253691>

> I suggest that doing this without a way to report on a path/IP/vendor
> that is screwing things up is a mistake.
> 
> http://urchin.earth.li/ecn/
> 
> went inactive again in 2011.

Will look into this now.

Greetings,

  Hannes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-31 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-27  2:37 Hannes Frederic Sowa
2012-12-27  5:04 ` Michael Richardson
2012-12-27  5:53   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2012-12-31 17:37   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2015-02-27 15:52     ` Richard Scheffenegger
2012-12-27 20:10 ` Rick Jones
2012-12-27 21:25   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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