From owner-cvs-src Wed Mar 12 17:50:24 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C0337B401; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A985643FB1; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:50:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1]) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h2D1oGmq096377; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:50:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hiten@localhost) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.8/8.12.1/Submit) id h2D1oG8C096375; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:50:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hiten) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:50:16 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya To: Jeffrey Hsu Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_input.c Message-ID: <20030313015016.GA95463@unixdaemons.com> References: <20030312210107.GA56887@unixdaemons.com> <0HBN00DUOPABZW@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0HBN00DUOPABZW@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD i386 X-Public-Key: http://www.pittgoth.com/~hiten/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten X-PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Hiten+Pandya&op=index Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeffrey Hsu (Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:04:22PM -0800) wrote: > >> hsu 2003/03/12 12:27:28 PST > >> > >> FreeBSD src repository > >> > >> Modified files: > >> sys/netinet tcp_input.c > >> Log: > >> Implement the Limited Transmit algorithm (RFC 3042). > > > Can you elaborate on this? > > Sure. Quoting from RFC 3042: > > The "Limited Transmit" algorithm calls for sending a new data segment in > response to each of the first two duplicate acknowledgments that > arrive at the sender. Transmitting these segments increases the > probability that TCP can recover from a single lost segment using the > fast retransmit algorithm, rather than using a costly retransmission > timeout. Cheers hsu@, des@ and Jayanth. Very appreciated. -- Hiten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message