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From: Bogdan Costescu <bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
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Subject: Re: R: Kernel bug handling TCP_RTO_MAX?
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Andrew McGregor wrote:

> You're going to make lots of IETFer's really annoyed by suggesting that :-)

I hope not. That was the reason for allowing it to be tuned and for having 
a default value equal to the existing one.

> In a closed network, why not have SOCK_STREAM map to something faster than 
> TCP anyway?

Sure, just give me a protocol that:
- is reliable
- has low latency
- comes with the standard kernel
and I'll just use it. But you always get only 2 out ot 3...

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