linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] tcp: Wrong timeout for SYN segments

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:44:35 +0200
From:	Carsten Wolff <carsten@...ffcarsten.de>
To:	Alexander Bergmann <alex@...lab.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	hkjerry.chu@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tcp: Wrong timeout for SYN segments

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
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