Re: TCP RTO

2004-09-08 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > These variables are used to calculate the TCP RTO. But why do they > have the two different version of variables? There are two different variables because they store different things. One measures the average of the round tri

TCP RTO

2004-09-08 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
ation estimator). The one is simply 'srtt' and 'rttvar' and the other is 't_srtt' and 't_rttvar'. The unit of t_srtt is 'ticks * 8' and the unit of t_rttvar is 'ticks * 4'. These variables are used to calculate the TCP RTO. But why do they have