On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 22:19, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > I'd argue that the /etc/sysctl.conf line is the real "fix", insofar as > disabling ECN at all can be considered a "fix" and not a "workaround". > Then people have the option of editing /etc/sysctl.conf to re-enable > ECN, without having to recompile the kernel. > This could be argued, but the main problem with it is not every newbie knows about it. Even though I knew about it from the past it took me a few days to put two and two together. Ideally you could enable ECN support, but change the default from enabled to disabled. As far as I know there isn't even a large gain from it. So if it is a small gain for a big loss of functionality by default, I say disable by default. > (Mandrake has been doing this since one of their 8.x releases, BTW.) > Another reason not to use Mandrake. The last time I tried them was in the 8.x series and I found it too buggy.
