Re: What is this? (syn_ack rtx 1)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:28:53 +0200 (EET)


On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Joseph Wade Breu wrote:
>
> Just got this in my log file. What does it mean? Runnin 2.1.8
>
> Nov 12 01:05:35 ctx-apex kernel: syn_ack rtx 1

The 2.1.8 new TCP code is a lot more verbose in some circumstances, just
because the re-transmission stuff has been moved from the IP layer to the TCP
layer where ireally t belongs, but it now tends to print out some debugging
messages. The one above is nothing to worry about.

Linus