On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Andrew McGregor wrote: > You're going to make lots of IETFer's really annoyed by suggesting that :-) I hope not. That was the reason for allowing it to be tuned and for having a default value equal to the existing one. > In a closed network, why not have SOCK_STREAM map to something faster than > TCP anyway? Sure, just give me a protocol that: - is reliable - has low latency - comes with the standard kernel and I'll just use it. But you always get only 2 out ot 3... -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html