Hi, lately I've run into a situation where I am doing a VPN over an
"occasionally slow but reliable" link, in particular the physical media
has relatively big packet loss (which causes the "occasionally slow"
behavior), but I am running the VPN in a TCP (which carries encrypted PPP
stream), which guarantees me the (almost) 100% reliability.
Question :
How do I tell the PPP interface "you are running on a very reliable but
slow link (that's the TCP link), so please apply a 3 minute timeout to TCP
packet retransmission". (As opposed to current 3 second timeout.)
(related question: how do I tell kernel that interface eth0 has big
packet loss, and therefore TCP connections made over eth0 should have
retransmit timeout halved ?)
Thanx,
JV
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