Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:17:36 +0200

David Stevens <[email-masked]> writes:

> Dave,
>         Shouldn't that be an estimator on the destination RTT? Or is that
> what you meant? A fast link locally that traverses a slow path along the 
> way
> would time out too fast.
>         Of course, getting an RTT estimate if there hasn't been TCP 
> traffic
> is a complication. :-)

At least for a directly connected flat network you could get it from ARP.

-Andi