From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: mark BIC as experimental Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20081031.005033.172610018.davem@davemloft.net> References: <006001c93a0d$477d4e30$4a580e98@ncsu2cc0c3fa00> <20081030083641.55e936b0@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rhee@eos.ncsu.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58012 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751419AbYJaHu6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:50:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081030083641.55e936b0@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:36:41 -0700 > Change the configuration defaults to mark BIC as experimental. > BIC is too aggressive and was replaced by CUBIC. Debian was picking > BIC in their default config (should be fixed by now), but the configuration > documentation did not make it explicit that this was a bad idea. > > Also update the URLs in the configuration documentation to current > locations. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger I understand your intention, but I'm not so sure we should do this. It's more than a double standard to make this change, yet still allow things like HTCP to still be a default. And you can't even make this selection without asking for TCP_CONG_ADVANCED. Well... duh!