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use largest acked, not packet number
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janaiyengar committed Aug 8, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -3170,10 +3170,9 @@ use the following steps on receiving an ACK frame to validate ECN.
vice versa).

Processing ECN counts out of order can result in validation failure. An
endpoint SHOULD NOT perform this validation if the ACK frame is received in a
packet with packet number lower than a previously received ACK frame.
Validating based on ACK frames that arrive out of order can result in disabling
ECN unnecessarily.
endpoint SHOULD perform this validation only if the largest packet number
acknowledged in this ACK frame is greater than the largest packet number
acknowledged so far in this connection.

An endpoint could miss acknowledgements for a packet when ACK frames are lost.
It is therefore possible for the total increase in ECT(0), ECT(1), and CE counts
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