netdev - Re: lowpri - RTO for unidirectional reciever

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Message-Id: <20081209.134322.143704165.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:43:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rick.jones2@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowpri - RTO for unidirectional reciever

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:25:19 -0800

> A miracle occurs going from zero bytes of payload but several bytes
> of TCP options (scale and MSS) to having one byte of payload and no
> bytes of options? (Timestamp options remaining the same in both
> cases)

All it takes is ~40 bytes on an extremely slow link.
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