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Comment: Added a few new SCE I-Ds... TODO: Explain what SCE is and what else is around in the area

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Another issue is that attempts to use ECN can cause issues with certain "middlebox" devices such as firewalls or load balancers, which break connectivity when unexpected TCP flags (or, more rarely, unexpected IP TOS values) are encountered. The original ECN RFC (RFC 2481) didn't handle this gracefully, so activating ECN on hosts that implement this version caused much frustration because of "hanging" connections. RFC 3168 proposes a mechanism to deal with ECN-unfriendly networks, but that hasn't been widely implemented yet. In particular, the Linux ECN implementation doesn't seem to implement it as of November 2007 (Linux 2.6.23).

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– SimonLeinen - 2005-01-07 - 20172019-1203-1211