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From: Michael Renzmann <mrenzmann@otaku42.de>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] RE: LARTC digest, Vol 1 #1558 - 9 msgs
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:32:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40164C6B.7060301@otaku42.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F73B338A7FD943B7937BBCF99BFBDE33B0D5@mail.sofaware.com>

Hi.

Aron Brand wrote:
> does this. Another option would be to trick the kernel that the packet
> has been transmitted, to prevent the immediate retries, while actually
> vanishing the packet.

I'm also no pro in this area, but I think this would be a bad idea. I 
guess this would have impact on the interface's statistics about sent, 
received and dropped packets, making it hard to look for network 
configuration errors and similar things.

Bye, Mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-27 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-27  9:30 [LARTC] RE: LARTC digest, Vol 1 #1558 - 9 msgs Aron Brand
2004-01-27 11:32 ` Michael Renzmann [this message]
2004-01-27 12:02 ` Aron Brand
2004-01-27 12:09 ` Michael Renzmann
2004-01-28  4:57 ` Roy

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