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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: BSD 4.2 style TCP keepalives
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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.