Hello!
> estimates of RTT. Is this true?
Yes.
> The code (2.2.14 kernel) seems to indicate that RTO is limited between
> 1/5sec to 120 sec. With gigabit ethernets it would be nice to be able to
> lower RTO to around 10 msec in some "real-time" applications. Since pkt
> losses in controlled env. are very low any way a fast timeout would not
> add too much overhead since it would hardly ever go off.
Do you still want to talk to another operating systems?
200msec is minimum for RTO, because BSD has fixed delayed ack
interval. If your rto is lower, you will fall to continuous
retransmission.
Also, if loss is low, rto value is not essential.
Alexey Kuznetsov
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