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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new TCP_IGNOREIDLE socket option
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On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:37:54 pm Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> John,
> 
> I came across this draft several days ago, you may be interested:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-newcwv-00

Yes, that is extremely relevant.  My application does use its own
rate-limiting.  And now that I've read this in full, this does seem
to very much be what I want and is a better solution than ignoring
idle handling entirely.  Ironic that this was posted a few weeks after my 
patch. :)  Clearly this is not an isolated workflow.

-- 
John Baldwin