Re: [PATCH 1/1] tcp: Wrong timeout for SYN segments

[Alex Bergmann]

On 08/23/2012 02:15 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 13:58 +0200, Alex Bergmann wrote:
>> On 08/22/2012 06:41 PM, H.K. Jerry Chu wrote:
> 
>>> This issue occurred to me right after I submitted the patch for RFC6298.
>>> I did not commit any more change because RFC compliance aside, 180secs
>>> just seem like eternity in the Internet age.
>>>
>>> (See my past post on this at
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130759078118866&w=2)
>>
>> Okay, I missed that post during my search about the current situation.
> 
> I would suggest to increase TCP_SYN_RETRIES from 5 to 6.
> 
> 180 secs is eternity, but 31 secs is too small.
> 
> Can you repost a v2, only changing TCP_SYN_RETRIES ?

I hope the description is good enough.

Alex