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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ca447b35b833..d64e53124b8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -439,7 +439,9 @@ tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value - is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds. + is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission + with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout + for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES @@ -478,7 +480,9 @@ tcp_fastopen - INTEGER tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value - is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds. + is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last restransmission + with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout + for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323. |