ECN(Explicit Congestion Notification) - capable transport - ECT(1) vs ECT(0)
Explicit Congestion Notification in IP ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) This document specifies that the Internet provide a congestion indication for incipient congestion (as in RED and earlier work [RJ90]) where the notification can sometimes be through marking packets rather than dropping them. This uses an ECN field in the IP header with two bits, making four ECN codepoints, '00' to '11'. The ECN-Capable Transport (ECT) codepoints '10' and '01' are set by the data sender to indicate that the end-points of the transport protocol are ECN-capable; we call them ECT(0) and ECT(1) respectively. The phrase "the ECT codepoint" in this documents refers to either of the two ECT codepoints. Routers treat the ECT(0) and ECT(1) codepoints as equivalent. Senders are free to use either the ECT(0) or the ECT(1) codepoint to indicate ECT, on a packet-by-packet basis. The use of both the two codepoints for ECT, E