Re: TCP control block interdependence

[Oumer Teyeb <oumer@kom.aau.dk>]

Thanks a lot Andi!
I checked ant the tcp_no_metrics_save is not available...
and it seems I am in luck, as the admins promised to provide me soon 
with a 2.6.12 server to play with...

Have a nice weekend,
Oumer

I checked, and on my laptop 2.4.28 kernel it is, but on 2.4.25 machines I

Andi Kleen wrote:

>Oumer Teyeb <oumer@kom.aau.dk> writes:
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>> From these I conclude that there is some TCP congestion control and
>>retransmission parameter caching, that is also time dependant....
>>and I want to disable it completley...
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>There is yes.
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>>So in short do you know how to disable this control block
>>interdepence? 
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>echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_no_metrics_save
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>>by the way I am using debian linux distribution and "uname -a" gives me
>>Linux 2.4.25-std #1 SMP Mon Mar 22 10:25:51 CET 2004 i686 unknown
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>I don't know if that sysctl was already in 2.4 and it's unclear
>if it makes sense to do any tests on such an old codebase anyways.
>Better use a 2.6 kernel.
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>-Andi
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