Subject: Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:09:17 -0700

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:57:36 -0300
Fernando Gont <[email-masked]> wrote:

> At 15:13 01/10/2004 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > > The draft proposes to change TCP's reaction to soft errors so that
> > > connections that are in the SYN-SENT or SYN-RECEIVED states are aborted
> > > upon receipt of an ICMP error message that indicates a soft error.
> >
> >I have verified that Linux behaves in a way compliant to this
> >proposal.  No changes are necessary.
> 
> Great! Thanks for your confirmation.
> BTW, do you have any record of how long Linux has been behaving this way? 
> (I'd like to include this information in the draft).

Even 2.0.x kernels behave this way.  Others are welcome to
search back even further :-)