netdev - Re: [PATCH] add a sysctl to disable TCP simultaneous connection opening

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Message-Id: <20081008.094212.130684373.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:42:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w@....eu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a sysctl to disable TCP simultaneous connection
 opening


I'm not really interested in applying this.

You can make the same argument for just about any queer corner case
aspect of TCP.

The world hasn't ended even though this patch hasn't applied since
2005 and that's a good argument to not apply "yet another random knob"
to the kernel.
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