From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752054Ab2H1JAc (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:00:32 -0400 Received: from h1346787.stratoserver.net ([85.214.49.182]:56116 "EHLO h1346787.stratoserver.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751256Ab2H1JAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:00:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 934 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:00:31 EDT From: Carsten Wolff To: Alexander Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tcp: Wrong timeout for SYN segments Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:44:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-5-686; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) Cc: David Miller , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, hkjerry.chu@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1345724123.5904.756.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20120824.134231.41073001349178209.davem@davemloft.net> <20120825084819.GD430@linlab.net> In-Reply-To: <20120825084819.GD430@linlab.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208281044.40057.carsten@wolffcarsten.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Saturday 25 August 2012, Alexander Bergmann wrote: > This patch increases the value of TCP_SYN_RETRIES to the value of 6, > providing a retransmission window of 63secs. > > The comments for SYN and SYNACK retries have also been updated to > describe the current settings. wouldn't it be nice, if the description of the corresponding sysctls in Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt could be updated too? Cheers Carsten