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Subject: Re: txqueuelen has wrong units; should be time
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Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 23:11 -0500, Albert Cahalan a écrit :

> It sounds like you need a callback or similar, so that TCP can be
> informed later that the drop has occurred.

There is the thing called skb destructor / skb_orphan() mess, that is
not stackable... Might extend this to something more clever, and be able
to call functions (into TCP stack for example) giving a status of skb :
Sent, or dropped somewhere in the stack...


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