Re: TCP bug?

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:13:19 +0100


> I'm not surprised that the problem exists. 2.0 previously had problems with
> route changes on TCP retransmits, there are probably other horrors lurking
> too. The problem is that in 2.0 the retransmit queue is managed by the link
> layer, which causes all kinds of problems. In 2.1/2.2 all this was solved
> bya rewrite - TCP packets in the retransmit queue are headerless now

Does this mean that it is safe now in 2.1 to change the skbuff's
contents by the driver without confusing upper layers (bogus :-)
retransmit mechanism? This would mean I could re-enable an
optimiziation in CIPE I had to take out for 2.0 because of exactly the
problem described above.

olaf

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