Re: TCP control block interdependence

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 08:41:11 EST


Oumer Teyeb <oumer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From these I conclude that there is some TCP congestion control and
> retransmission parameter caching, that is also time dependant....
> and I want to disable it completley...

There is yes.

> So in short do you know how to disable this control block
> interdepence?

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_no_metrics_save

> by the way I am using debian linux distribution and "uname -a" gives me
> Linux 2.4.25-std #1 SMP Mon Mar 22 10:25:51 CET 2004 i686 unknown

I don't know if that sysctl was already in 2.4 and it's unclear
if it makes sense to do any tests on such an old codebase anyways.
Better use a 2.6 kernel.

-Andi
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