lwip-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [lwip-devel] Retransmission Forever


From: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [lwip-devel] Retransmission Forever
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:44:08 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0

narke wrote:
How long a segment can stay in retransmission queue before it get an
ACK and release?  Is there an upper limit?
... hit the send button too early :-)

The upper limit for retransmissions is TCP_MAXRTX (default is 12) and there's an exponential backoff to the retransmission timeout (see '
tcp_backoff'), I'm too lazy to calculate that right now...

Simon

reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]