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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Subject: Re: Bug?  TCP shutdown behaviour when deleting local IP addresses
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:09:04 +0200
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Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> writes:

> Would you mind if it was user configurable?

No, I would not mind. But I am the wrong person to ask that question, I
do not have to deal with supporting configuration options.

> Would you mind if the TCP retransmit timers were severely lowered upon
> reconnection so your TCP sessions started working quicker? Or you
> don't see this problem at all?

I would not mind that at all. I do not particularly recall seeing the
problem, but that sounds like a great idea.


/Benny