Re: ax25 t1_timeout

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:58:11AM +0200, jarmo wrote:

> Withs kernel 2.6.11 ax25 t1_timeout is working badly...
> Expl. I have set t1_timeout to 10s (10000).Now testing..
> Taking radio of,set connection to somewhere,first try then
> 10s time second try...But then 20s and try next 30s and try...
> So t1_timeout is increasing?In 2.6.10 timeout is 10 and
> it does not increase...Possible bug?

No, pilot error ;-)

Linux supports three different backoff types which can be configured via
/proc or sysctl.  This is how to display the backoff type of interface
sp0, for example:

  [root@dl5rb] sysctl net.ax25.sp0.backoff_type
  net.ax25.sp0.backoff_type = 1
  [root@dl5rb]

1 in this example stands for linear backoff which is the default and what
you've been observing.  0 would be no backoff which generally in a shared
RF environment is probably unfriendly and can mathematically be shown to
cause network meltdowns.  Finally 2 would means exponential backoff,
which would use t1, 2*t1, 4*t1, 8*t1 for the waiting time, but never goes
worse than 8 * t1.

You can change the value with sysctl also but generally linear backoff is
quite reasonable.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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