Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:53:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: kmacy@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: default ECN settings Message-ID: <201509050053.t850rh9P071595@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHM0Q_NOUftuDrehq-sqa4CRjRxjyyP7hAe%2BZdegBoenSMcbQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4 Sep, K. Macy wrote: > By default ECN is completely disabled on FreeBSD. On Linux the default > is to disable it outbound (not request it) but enable it inbound > (accept new connections asking for it). Is there a good reason to only > set ECN_PERMIT on inbound connections if the system is doing ECN on > outbound connections? Not that I can think of. The risk in enabling ECN for outbound connections is that some connection attempts can fail, especially if you are attempting to connect to some old and oddball device. That should not be a risk for inbound connections since those devices won't be requesting ECN. Seems like we should be defaulting ECN on for inbound connections, though we currently can't control the two directions separately.
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