Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:53:18 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.6 TCP stack bug |
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:20:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
Btw, are the net gurus working on improving the worst-case default behaviour of the Linux networking code?
Actually I think in this case the PPP driver should really hold onto outgoing packets and keep retrying (with some limit, say 16 attempts, much like many modern ethernet cards limit collision retries) the send if character errors/drops are hit, much like ethernet does in hardware for collisions.
Unfortunately this scheme only works for the side we have control over, it will not allow better recovery for the cases where the other end of the PPP link incurs drops/errors.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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