Subject: Re: [Bug 94991] New: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific condition

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:53:11 +0100

On 03/17/2015 06:44 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Neal Cardwell <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:49:49 -0400
>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger
>> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94991
>>>              Bug ID: 94991
>>>             Summary: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific
>>>                      condition
>>
>> Thanks for forwarding. I posted the following on the bug:
>>
>> 2.6.32 is over 5 years old (Dec 2009). I suspect this bug is in the
>> old FRTO code that Yuchung removed when he rewrote FRTO from scratch
>> in 2013. Can you please test a newer version of the kernel (preferably
>> 3.19 but at least 3.12 or newer) to see if this bug is still around?
>> Thanks!
>
> Stephen, if you're processing networking bugzilla entries in the
> future, don't even forward 2.6.x based stuff to the list please.

That's btw a RHEL6 kernel it seems (2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64).

Matias, you would need to open a BZ at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
for RHEL6 kernel component.