From: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:22:36 +0200
> Currently a link is declared stale and reset if there has been 100 > repeated attempts to retransmit the same packet. However, in certain > infrastructures we see that packet (NACK) duplicates and delays may > cause such retransmit attempts to occur at a high rate, so that the > peer doesn't have a reasonable chance to acknowledge the reception > before the 100-limit is hit. This may take much less than the > stipulated link tolerance time, and despite that probe/probe replies > otherwise go through as normal. > > We now extend the criteria for link reset to also being time based. > I.e., we don't reset the link until the link tolerance time is passed > AND we have made 100 retransmissions attempts. > > Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying....@windriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com> Applied, thanks Jon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ tipc-discussion mailing list tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tipc-discussion
