Re: Skyhigh retransmit times. Yearold problem still in 2.3.26

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:02:32 +0100

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Once you get through again TCP will reset the timeouts itself as it
> receives new ACKs.

Not if TCP does not retry for the duration of your "connected" window,
say 5 minutes...

Also, I'm not convinced TCP resets the timeouts when they are so large
so much as takes them back down slowly. This is useless if your
connection disappeared for a few minutes and then TCP takes longer than
you have left to recover.

-- Jamie

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