From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>,
John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN to change congestion control algorithm
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:03:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026180329.571de4c8@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061026235256.GB2018@c3po.0xdef.net>
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:52:56 +0200
Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> wrote:
>
> Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to change congestion control
> algorithm.
>
> Under normal circumstances a application programmer doesn't have enough
> information to choose the "right" algorithm (expect he is the pchar/pathchar
> maintainer). At 99.9% only the local host administrator has the knowledge to
> select a proper standard, system-wide algorithm (the remaining 0.1% are
> for testing purpose). If we let the user select an alternative algorithm we
> introduce one potential weak spot - so we ban this eventuality.
>
> HGN
If you aren't doing experiments don't compile it in your kernel.
If distro's are including "unfair" congestion control file a bug report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 18:08 [RFC] tcp: setsockopt congestion control autoload Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-25 23:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 5:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-26 14:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 14:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-26 15:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 17:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 20:55 ` David Miller
2006-10-26 17:29 ` John Heffner
2006-10-26 20:57 ` David Miller
2006-10-26 22:44 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-26 22:53 ` John Heffner
2006-10-26 23:52 ` [PATCH] Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN to change congestion control algorithm Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-26 23:59 ` Ian McDonald
2006-10-27 0:07 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 0:20 ` Ian McDonald
2006-10-27 0:02 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 10:43 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-27 14:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 15:21 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-27 15:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 17:30 ` [PATCH] tcp: don't allow unfair congestion control to be built without warning Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 17:43 ` John Heffner
2006-10-27 17:59 ` [PATCH] tcp: allow restricting congestion control choices Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 21:17 ` [PATCH] tcp: don't allow unfair congestion control to be built without warning David Miller
2006-10-27 21:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 21:37 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 22:12 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 22:24 ` David Miller
2006-10-28 0:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-28 3:10 ` [RFC] tcp: available congetsion control Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 21:22 ` [PATCH] Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN to change congestion control algorithm David Miller
2006-10-27 1:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-10-27 18:14 ` [PATCH] tcp: setsockopt congestion control autoload Stephen Hemminger
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