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Re: Fragment ID wrap workaround (read-only, untested).

To: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fragment ID wrap workaround (read-only, untested).
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:02:49 +0200
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, rusty@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:54:53 -0700
David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> I agree that NFS over UDP should be dead as soon as possible,
> and fragmentation in general not far behind it. They aren't quite
> dead yet; until they are, why not make them better behaved? And
> if your argument is that it isn't worth fixing because it isn't

I wouldn't go that far, just make extremly sure that any 
solution works on slow links too. The problem I see 
is that if you make the delay factor long enough to make 
the extremly variable links not regress you risk 
making the wrap on very fast links likely again. 

-Andi

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