18.1.3 Disabling ECN-Capability

18.1.3 Disabling ECN-Capability

This change is turning off the ECT codepoint of a packet. This means that if the packet later encounters congestion (e.g., by arriving at a RED queue with a moderate average queue size), it will be dropped instead of marked. By itself, this is no worse for the application than a tampering router actually dropping the packet. What is desirable about this particular case is that there is no upstream congested router that expects a reaction from setting the CE bit.