From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:20:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070829.152059.48818008.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D5EEB6.3020602@hp.com>
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:09:58 -0700
> If nothing else, 200 ms is a "principle of least surprise" thing since
> that is the current value (in MS) for TCP_RTO_MIN.
And Solaris and MacOS-X and...
In fact this is a great example why we don't treat RFCs as dictations
from the gods. They are often wrong, impractical, or full of fatal
flaws.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 20:52 [PATCH] make _minimum_ TCP retransmission timeout configurable Rick Jones
2007-08-29 21:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-08-29 22:11 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-29 21:32 ` Ian McDonald
2007-08-29 21:46 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 22:10 ` Ian McDonald
2007-08-29 22:23 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 22:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-29 22:28 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-29 22:58 ` NCR, was " John Heffner
2007-08-29 22:59 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 22:32 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-29 22:29 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-29 22:35 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 22:48 ` John Heffner
2007-08-29 22:52 ` John Heffner
2007-08-29 22:53 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2007-08-29 23:06 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-29 23:15 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 23:31 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-30 5:22 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-30 17:10 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-29 23:44 ` John Heffner
2007-09-05 19:04 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-09-06 20:39 ` David Miller
2007-08-29 22:09 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-29 22:20 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-29 22:33 ` Ian McDonald
2007-08-29 22:37 ` David Miller
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