netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: Expose the initial RTO via a new sysctl.

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Message-Id: <20110518.162306.441229167098643303.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 16:23:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hagen@...u.net
Cc:	tsunanet@...il.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Expose the initial RTO via a new sysctl.

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:20:25 +0200

> I like the idea to make the initial RTO a knob because we in a
> isolated MANET environment have a RTT larger then 1 second.

Then this gets back to the fact that this is a network
attribute and thus more suitable as a route metric not
a global system-wide sysctl.
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