netdev - Re: BSD 4.2 style TCP keepalives

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:21:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Subject: Re: BSD 4.2 style TCP keepalives

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 07:40:33 -0500

> Dave, sorry about this, but it looks like we can scrap this, I just
> looked at the initial tcpdump this was reported in, and apparently
> w2k doesn't compute the checksum properly on these old style
> keepalives.

Thanks for the update.  Nothing to be sorry about, this is actually a
relief and we learned a lot about keepalives and zero-window probes in
the process :-)
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