Killing IPTOS_CE and IPTOS_ECT
Rui Paulo
rpaulo at fnop.net
Tue Sep 4 11:22:44 PDT 2007
Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on TCP ECN support and I would like to kill these defines
>> from netinet/ip.h
>>
>> #if 1
>> /* ECN RFC3168 obsoletes RFC2481, and these will be deprecated soon. */
>> #define IPTOS_CE 0x01
>> #define IPTOS_ECT 0x02
>> #endif
>>
>> The are outdated and should no longer be used because that RFC has
>> been obsoleted. RFC 3168 uses a bit different bits:
>> #define IPTOS_ECN_NOTECT 0x00 /* not-ECT */
>> #define IPTOS_ECN_ECT1 0x01 /* ECN-capable transport (1) */
>> #define IPTOS_ECN_ECT0 0x02 /* ECN-capable transport (0) */
>> #define IPTOS_ECN_CE 0x03 /* congestion experienced */
>> #define IPTOS_ECN_MASK 0x03 /* ECN field mask */
>>
>> The only consumer of the RFC 2481 defines is sbin/ipfw/ipfw2.c and
>> luigi@ accepted the attached patch.
>>
>> Does anyone have any objection against the removal ?
>
> No. Please produce a complete unified diff patch including both
> the changes to ip.h and ipfw2.c, a sufficiently verbose commit
> message, the result a complete make universe build run with the
> patch applied to otherwise clean sources and send it to re@ and
> me in CC. If approved I commit it for you.
Well, I was asking for comments regarding on the usage of these flags. I
was hoping to commit ip.h along with TCP ECN.
This doesn't really need to be before the branch, I think.
--
Rui Paulo
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