netdev - Re: TCP and reordering

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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:44:38 +0200
From:	Saku Ytti <saku@...i.fi>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP and reordering

On (2012-11-28 10:24 -0800), Rick Jones wrote:

> By increasing net.ipv4.tcp_reordering you make the sending TCP less
> "sensitive" to duplicate ACKs and so less sensitive to reordering
> detected by the receiver.  The receiver is generating as many
> (duplicate) ACKs as before, it is just that the sender is ignoring
> them a bit more.

Thanks, I didn't know this.

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