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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: "Dan Noé" <dnoe@limebrokerage.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detecting TCP loss on the receiving side?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:11:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48766CF0.1020101@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4876668C.8040108@limebrokerage.com>

Dan Noé wrote:
> We're trying to troubleshoot some problems and we'd like to use the 
> struct tcp_info method to gain some information and attempt to detect 
> TCP loss events on the receiving side of a TCP stream.  The problem is 
> struct tcp_info is not well documented and my attempts to trace it seem 
> to reveal that most of the statistics are relevant to the sending side 
> of a TCP connection.
> 
> Are there any fields (or any other way) to easily detect loss events? 
> We're mostly concerned with detecting when TCP loss or reordering delays 
> things resulting in additional latency.

If this is just for troubleshooting, why not just take a tcpdump trace?

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-10 19:44 Detecting TCP loss on the receiving side? Dan Noé
2008-07-10 20:11 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-07-10 20:19   ` Dan Noé
2008-07-10 21:05     ` John Heffner
2008-07-10 21:20       ` Rick Jones
2008-07-10 21:34         ` John Heffner
2008-07-10 22:15         ` Dan Noe
2008-07-10 21:14     ` Rick Jones
2008-07-13 18:52 ` Andi Kleen

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