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. - : 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