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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: BSD 4.2 style TCP keepalives
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:59:53 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105.195953.16499086.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100106020756.GA4378@localhost.localdomain>

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:07:56 -0500

> Dave, If that patch fixes the problem (waiting on test results now,
> but I figure it will), what if we add a parameter to tcp_sequence
> (and tcp_validate_incomming), that represents an offset to trim from
> end_seq (so that we can effectively ignore the garbage byte)?

Sure, we could do that too, and it would be an improvement.

Let's first wait for test results and also give a bit for
others to potentially come up with implementation ideas.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-06  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-06  0:39 BSD 4.2 style TCP keepalives David Miller
2010-01-06  2:07 ` Neil Horman
2010-01-06  3:59   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-06 17:21     ` Rick Jones
2010-01-06 20:50       ` Neil Horman
2010-01-06  8:23 ` David Miller
2010-01-06 23:04   ` David Miller
2010-01-07  0:14     ` David Miller
2010-01-07  3:21       ` David Miller
2010-01-07  3:36         ` David Miller
2010-01-07  0:34     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-01-07  0:59       ` David Miller
2010-01-07  7:55         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-01-08 12:40 ` Neil Horman
2010-01-08 21:21   ` David Miller
2010-01-09  1:22     ` Neil Horman
2010-01-09  1:41       ` David Miller

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