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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-2.6: SYN retransmits: Add new parameter to
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:08:46 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:44:54 +0200

> 
> This patch adds a syn_set parameter to the retransmits_timed_out()
> routine and updates its callers. If not set, TCP_RTO_MIN is taken
> as the calculation basis as before. If set, TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT is
> used instead, so that sysctl_syn_retries represents the actual
> amount of SYN retransmissions in case no SYNACKs are received when
> establishing a new connection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>

Applied, thanks Damian.