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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in	milliseconds
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:56:24 -0700
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> Your observations are correct. rtnetlink can't/shouldn't be doing conversions
> itself.  The 'ip' command should use a consistent unit for all values and
> do conversions if necessary.

That being the case I'll start looking to see what is involved in 
"leveraging" the time conversion stuff in tc for use in ip.

rick jones