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Subject: default ECN settings
From: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
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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?