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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.