Subject: Re: Bug? TCP shutdown behaviour when deleting local IP addresses

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:43:39 -0700

Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> I see no real problem here.
>
> Its like you cut the cable somewhere in the path.

I had a patch for this a long time ago to speed up recovery.
It was very useful with dial on demand ISDN links or DSL
connections that hang up occasionally to force a new IP.

It was in SUSE kernels for a long time, but never made it 
into mainline

http://www.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/quilt-before-arch-merge/patches/iff-dynamic

-Andi

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