Kernel:IP TCP ECN

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 02:37, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> 
> > That way, they disable it by default, but people who want it can
> > re-enable it without recompiling the kernel. The downside (at least with
> > the Mandrake implementation) is that some (but maybe not all; I don't
> > remember the details right now) people got the new kernel but not the
> > /etc/sysctl.conf change when upgrading from older Mandrake releases, so
> > they happened to get ECN enabled by mistake.
> 
> Better yet, how about a nice ECN startup script with chkconfig support?  
> 
> Clearly, this [ECN being on] is going to piss a few people off and many of 
> those folks have never looked at /etc/sysctl.conf so a nice handy service 
> (with a default to on at install time) would probably make everyone happy 
> :)
Or a little explanation on how to run system-config-proc and click the
relevant checkbox ;)

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