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Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors

To: Fernando Gont <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:09:17 -0700
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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:57:36 -0300
Fernando Gont <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 15:13 01/10/2004 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > > The draft proposes to change TCP's reaction to soft errors so that
> > > connections that are in the SYN-SENT or SYN-RECEIVED states are aborted
> > > upon receipt of an ICMP error message that indicates a soft error.
> >
> >I have verified that Linux behaves in a way compliant to this
> >proposal.  No changes are necessary.
> 
> Great! Thanks for your confirmation.
> BTW, do you have any record of how long Linux has been behaving this way? 
> (I'd like to include this information in the draft).

Even 2.0.x kernels behave this way.  Others are welcome to
search back even further :-)

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