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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Expose the initial RTO via a new sysctl.
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From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:20:25 +0200

> I like the idea to make the initial RTO a knob because we in a
> isolated MANET environment have a RTT larger then 1 second.

Then this gets back to the fact that this is a network
attribute and thus more suitable as a route metric not
a global system-wide sysctl.