From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aron Brand" Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:02:19 +0000 Subject: RE: [LARTC] RE: LARTC digest, Vol 1 #1558 - 9 msgs Message-Id: <50F73B338A7FD943B7937BBCF99BFBDE33B0FF@mail.sofaware.com> List-Id: References: <50F73B338A7FD943B7937BBCF99BFBDE33B0D5@mail.sofaware.com> In-Reply-To: <50F73B338A7FD943B7937BBCF99BFBDE33B0D5@mail.sofaware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org I agree, but this is still better than crashing the machine... Aron -----Original Message----- From: Michael Renzmann [mailto:mrenzmann@otaku42.de] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:33 PM To: Aron Brand Cc: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl; roy@xxx.lt Subject: Re: [LARTC] RE: LARTC digest, Vol 1 #1558 - 9 msgs 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/