Re: [nottingham] ECN and the wonderful world of firewalls

From: Jon Masters (jonathan@jonmasters.org)
Date: Sun 06 May 2001 - 19:34:26 BST


Robert Davies wrote:

> Yes, Solaris 2 was one of the early adopting systems.

Yes, OK. Still 1993 was relatively a "long time" ago... :P

> ATM gets round this by mandating a pathetically small fixed cell size

You mean "doing it right"? :P

> (I suppose you know how they arrived at it?) :)

Yes, I've heard the stories enough times :) Personally I think the
Europeans were morons, the US weren't much better and the final size of
48 plus header is yucky.

> Does anyone know anything more about ECN, and whether there's gonna be
> DoS attacks if anyone takes notice of it, with faked packets with ECN
> bits set?

I would imagine that it's not an issue past one router away from the
source of the ECN.

--jcm
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