Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't allow unfair congestion control to be built without warning

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:24:02 -0700

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:17:49 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:30:16 -0700
> 
> > My proposed method restricting TCP choices to fair algorithms.
> > This a net wide, not system wide issue, it should not be done
> > by kernel policy choice (capability), but by a build choice.
> 
> I think this sucks even worse than the current situation.
> 
> How difficult is it to understand that an administrator might
> like to be able to build in and experiment with some congestion
> control algorithms, yet still be able to keep his normal users
> from using them?

Only some (very few) have any bad consequences. So the typical
distribution should be able to switch with most available for everyone,
and only a few needing special privileges.

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>