From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:09:17 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20041003140917.48cd6069.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20040915112853.00cf9980@mail.daleclick.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20040915112853.00cf9980@mail.daleclick.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20041003105509.00e33650@pop.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Fernando Gont In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20041003105509.00e33650@pop.gmx.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:57:36 -0300 Fernando Gont wrote: > At 15:13 01/10/2004 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > The draft proposes to change TCP's reaction to soft errors so that > > > connections that are in the SYN-SENT or SYN-RECEIVED states are aborted > > > upon receipt of an ICMP error message that indicates a soft error. > > > >I have verified that Linux behaves in a way compliant to this > >proposal. No changes are necessary. > > Great! Thanks for your confirmation. > BTW, do you have any record of how long Linux has been behaving this way? > (I'd like to include this information in the draft). Even 2.0.x kernels behave this way. Others are welcome to search back even further :-)