R: Kernel bug handling TCP_RTO_MAX?
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Never say never ;-)
I need to change it now as a temporary workaround for a problem in the UMTS core \
network of my company. But I think there could be thousands of situations where a \
fine tuning of this TCP parameter could be useful.Any contributes on the problem?
If what you are trying to do is terminate the connection earlier, than reduce the tcp sysctl variable tcp_retries2. This should be the maximum number of retransmits TCP will make in established state.
The TCP_RTO_MAX parameter is simply an *upper bound* on the value of the retransmission timeout, which increases exponentially from the original timeout value.
thanks,
Nivedita