From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tcp: Wrong timeout for SYN segments Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:42:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120831.154234.735439593093335863.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1346414260.2591.8.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20120831124831.GA23279@linlab.net> <1346419550.2591.12.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alex@linlab.net, hkjerry.chu@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1346419550.2591.12.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:25:50 -0700 > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 14:48 +0200, Alexander Bergmann wrote: > >> Hi Eric! >> >> I've also changed the Documentation file. As usual, comments are welcome! >> >> >> Alex >> >> >> From 848f34ce27f65401940ae98e0b2d395888d3986d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Alexander Bergmann >> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:31:00 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] tcp: Increase timeout for SYN segments >> >> Commit 9ad7c049 changed the initRTO from 3secs to 1sec in accordance to >> RFC6298 (former RFC2988bis). This reduced the time till the last SYN >> retransmission packet gets sent from 93secs to 31secs. >> >> RFC1122 is stating that the retransmission should be done for at least 3 >> minutes, but this seems to be quite high. >> >> "However, the values of R1 and R2 may be different for SYN >> and data segments. In particular, R2 for a SYN segment MUST >> be set large enough to provide retransmission of the segment >> for at least 3 minutes. The application can close the >> connection (i.e., give up on the open attempt) sooner, of >> course." >> >> This patch increases the value of TCP_SYN_RETRIES to the value of 6, >> providing a retransmission window of 63secs. >> >> The comments for SYN and SYNACK retries have also been updated to >> describe the current settings. The same goes for the documentation file >> "Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt". >> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Bergmann >> --- > > Thanks for your patience and followup, this seems good to me ! > > Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Applied with some minor comment formatting and wording adjustments. Thanks everyone.