Re: BUG in tcp_timer.c:tcp_retransmit_timer()

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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:54:14 +0530 (IST)
Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com> wrote:

> 	Thats right. But what about the other cases of retransmission 
> failures for which we are having a negative return (-ENOMEM, -EAGAIN, 
> -EHOSTUNREACH etc). Even for these cases its not a good idea to 
> artificially increment tp->retransmits, lest in some extreme case we might 
> timeout a connection without a single packet going on the wire.

That's just like the packet getting dropped at the next hop,
and not the case this branch of code intends to deal with.
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