Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 08:59:49 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:12:11 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> There are a -lot- of large sites that give us issues like this.
So mail lots of people. Cisco are I think now aware that their firewall products dont handle ECN correctly but others might not be.
That being said, when folks send off complaints to these sites, they may want to mention that Cisco firewall products are known to cause trouble in this area. This may help that mysterious "IT Department" get to the problem quicker. :-)
It probably makes sense also to specifically recommend to these sites that they contact Cisco for fixes to these ECN problems in their firewall kit.
If Alan or myself tell Cisco about this bug, they are very unlikely to move very fast. But if some of their largest site customers begin to moan, expect a more timely fix :-)
Admittedly, even Linux itself was buggy wrt. ECN at one point, a year or so ago (essentially we just blindly echo'd the ECN bits due to how we built response packets, so it appeared as if we supported ECN when in fact we didn't :-).
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