These patches deal with issues brought up by Gavin McCullagh about reactions of Cubic and HTCP to hostile receivers that return bogus timestamp options. If the receiver crafts a timestamp that is larger than the original, then some of the congestion control algorithms maybe come unfair.
The solution in these patches is to only use local values to measure RTT for congestion control. The timestamp is still used as described in RFC's to measure RTT used for retransmit timer. Thank you to Sangtae Ha for testing, these, see: http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/net-2.6.22/stephen_lowres/ He also found some pre-existing problems with TCP-LP that might be related to NAPI on the receiver. This should go into 2.6.23. But not into the stable kernel since the risk of causing regression is greater than the possible risk exposure. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
