Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 15:26:44 +1000
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:20:15 -0400 (EDT),
Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote:
>In this case there should be a reset_exponential_backoff('device')
>function on the kernel that should be called when the ppp connection comes
>back up. This wont help hosts on the other side of an IP masqed connection
>(my situation where the reconnect time sucks, I've got dial on demand ISDN
>and a static IP)..
>
>Is there perhaps an ICMP message that the masq box could send to the
>inside computers to reset their expoential backoff?
I raised this question on linux-net starting May 22, look for a thread
"TCP retransmit timeout on dropped lines". The responses were useful
and made it very clear why this would violate RFC's and generally be a
bad thing.
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