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Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 18952] New: The mount of SYN retries is not
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:00:08 +0200

> My suggestion for solving this issue:
> Introducing a third boolean parameter for retransmits_timed_out()
> indicating whether the socket is in SYN state or not. In the SYN case, 
> TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT will be used for the calculation instead of
> TCP_RTO_MIN.
> 
> Is that ok?

Sounds fine to me, please prepare a patch.

Thanks!