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From: "Arcot Arumugam" <arcot_arumugam@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: TCPPureAcks TCPHPAcks - Definition?
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:41:13 -0800
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> read and unstand the
> places in the TCP stack sources where these counters are
> bumped

I will do that.

But does it hurt so much that the networking stack developers cannot provide
a comment for each field?

I know they are busy people and do not do such "trivial" things.

Thanks anyway

Arcot

----- Original Message -----
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Arcot Arumugam" <arcot_arumugam@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: TCPPureAcks TCPHPAcks - Definition?


> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:03, Arcot Arumugam wrote:
> > Does anyone know about what these fields contain? Is it documented
anywhere?
>
> They are statistics for the developers of the networking
> stack, if you can't be bothered to read and unstand the
> places in the TCP stack sources where these counters are
> bumped then congratulations these statistics can safely
> be ignored by you :-)
>
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