Re: Skyhigh retransmit times. Yearold problem still in 2.3.26

Andi Kleen (ak-uu@muc.de)
14 Nov 1999 11:38:47 +0100


christoph@lameter.com (Christoph Lameter) writes:

> I have been bitching about this for years ....
>
> This is for a ssh connection via a ricochet:
>
> netstat -ton
>
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:1026 127.0.0.1:1027 ESTABLISHED off (0.00/0/0)
> tcp 0 0 204.179.131.123:1745 207.33.153.134:6667 ESTABLISHED on2 (7106.08/0/0)
> tcp 0 0 204.179.131.123:1023 207.33.153.134:22 ESTABLISHED on2 (6455.34/0/0)
>
> If there would at least be a command to reset those times to make the
> connection usable again.... This way I have to establish a new connection
> to the same host to do something usable.

Once you get through again TCP will reset the timeouts itself as it
receives new ACKs.

-Andi

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