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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 8a977a0aaede..f98ca633b528 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -225,19 +225,13 @@ tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER Default: 60 seconds tcp_frto - INTEGER - Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138. + Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682. F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission - timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments - where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference - rather than intermediate router congestion. F-RTO is sender-side - only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from - the peer. - - If set to 1, basic version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced - F-RTO if flow uses SACK. The basic version can be used also when - SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO - interacts badly with the packet counting of the SACK enabled TCP - flow. + timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the + RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only + modification. It does not require any support from the peer. + + By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO. tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled. |