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    SubjectRe: fix TCP roundtrip time update code
    On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Mosberger wrote:

    > Martin> I tested this patch and it looks like it has cured my
    > Martin> mysterious TCP stalls.
    >
    > Yes, this sounds reasonable. I wasn't very clear on this point, but
    > "by going south" I meant that TCP is starting to misbehave. In
    > particular, you'll likely end up with the kernel aborting ESTABLISHED
    > TCP connections with extreme prejudice (and in violation of the TCP
    > protocol), because it thought that it had been unable to communicate
    > with the remote end for a _very_ long time. The net effect typically
    > is that you end up with one end having a connection that's in the
    > ESTABLISHED state and the other end having no trace of that
    > connection.

    David,

    This might be the solution to one of the 'must-fix' bugs for the
    networking, which nobody so far was quite able to track down.


    - James
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    James Morris
    <jmorris@intercode.com.au>


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