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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:41:29 +0100 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: [RFC 0/3] TCP congestion control RTT patches These patches deal with issues brought up by Gavin McCullagh about reactions of Cubic and HTCP to hostile receivers that return bogus timestamp options. In a couple of places the timestamp value is used in ways that could cause unfairness. The solution in these patches is to only use local values to measure RTT for congestion control. The timestamp is still used as described in RFC's to measure RTT used for retransmit timer. This code is preliminary and not throughly tested yet. It could be backported to 2.6.22 for stable kernels, but it would be hard to go back to earlier kernels because it builds on the recent TCP congestion control API changes. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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