Re: [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking

Rick Jones
2008-09-03T00:00:59Z

David Miller wrote:
> From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:40:46 -0700
>>Can one change the TCP maximum RTO to be smaller than specified in the specs?
> We always min-clamp the RTO at RTO calculation time in order to be
> compatible with BSD's coarse grained times.

But tuning TCP_RTO_MAX isn't permitted right? I'm drawing (perhaps
flawed) parallels/distinctions between what is/isn't permitted to tweak
for timers for one protocol versus another and wondering which may be a
case of sauce for the goose/gander.

rick jones