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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:33:38 -0500

> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:53:07 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > > it occurred to me that we might want to do something
> > > like a state change event generator.
> > 
> > This could be a basis for an interesting TCP
> > performance tester.
> 
> That is what tcpprobe does but it isn't detailed enough to address SACK
> issues.

Indeed, this could be done via the jprobe there.

Silly me I didn't do this in the implementation I whipped
up, which I'll likely correct.