We need to support inter-plenatary TCP/IP!
;-> OK i hope that is funny. It was to me when i walked into
some presentation someone from http://www.ipnsig.org/ was
giving. But this is serious stuff
The presentation is at:
http://www.ipnsig.org/reports/ipnnodes/index.htm
Interplanetary TCP: Hmm... DoS now means some kiddie robot on the
moon just dropping all SYNs going by for fun ;->
cheers,
jamal
On Fri, 5 May 2000 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > In Linux 2.3.99pre6, TCP_RTO_MAX is set to (120*HZ) in include/net/tcp.h
> > (line 297). I think it should be set to (240*HZ).
>
> If you plan to talk to Mars, it is not enough. 8)
> If you do not plan to leave Earth, 60 sec is much more than enough. 8)
>
>
> Another place from the same RFC:
>
>
> The TCP specification [TCP:1]
> arbitrarily
> assumes a value of 2 minutes for MSL.
>
> So, MSL is an arbitrary value selected to be realistic.
>
> Nowadays, MSL is 60 seconds. RFC1122 is too conservative in most
> of places, wrong in another ones and real implemntation fix it,
> when it is necessary.
>
> Alexey
>
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