netdev - Re: NAT stops forwarding ACKs after PMTU discovery

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Message-ID: <1376935800.4226.71.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:10:00 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
Cc:	Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com>,
	Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@...ooh.org>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAT stops forwarding ACKs after PMTU discovery

On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 19:15 +0200, Christoph Paasch wrote:

> 
> Will send it soon. Have to rebase on net-next,... :)
> (it's several months ago that I did this)

No hurry.

This is a very unlikely problem anyway.

Trace taken on a random Google server :

TcpExtTCPSACKDiscard 44666
TcpExtTCPSACKReneging 173593
TcpExtTCPSACKReorder 1331306
TcpExtTCPSackFailures 791292
TcpExtTCPSackMerged 261702691
TcpExtTCPSackRecovery 57267494
TcpExtTCPSackRecoveryFail 2008511
TcpExtTCPSackShiftFallback 841017416
TcpExtTCPSackShifted 619337144
...
TcpOutSegs 42215528084
TcpRetransSegs 441868477


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