the protocol dispatch layer for TCP timers. This saves having to
modify a potentially large number of timer values (which were shorts,
and expanded to ... a lot of code on the Alpha).
- kern/5381 (Dennis Ferguson): check IP header checksum in fast forward
code.
- In ipflow_slowtimo(), if no IP flows are in use, don't bother checking
all of the hash buckets.
flow, by setting the "can fast forward" flag in the packet header, and
giving a chance for filters to clear the flag. If the flag is still
set after the filters have given it a chance, the packet will be used
to create a fast-forward flow entry.
the burst size allowed, but rather a fixed number of packets, as
described in the Internet Draft. Default allowed burst is 4 packets,
per the Draft.
Make the use of CWM and the allowed burst size tunable via sysctl.
if_fddisubr.c to fastpath IP forwarding. If ip_forward successfully
forwards a packet, it will create a cache (ipflow) entry. ether_input
and fddi_input will first call ipflow_fastforward with the received
packet and if the packet passes enough tests, it will be forwarded (the
ttl is decremented and the cksum is adjusted incrementally).
conditional (tcp_compat_42). The kernel config option TCP_COMPAT_42
will still enable this by default, or disable this by default if the
option is not included (i.e. current behavior). This will be made a
sysctl soon.
rule was to update the timestamp if the sequence numbers are in range. New
rule adds a check that the timestamp is advancing, thus preventing our notion
of the most recent timestamp from incorrectly moving backwards.
all of the fragments. Use the mtu of route in preference of the MTU of the
interface when doing fragmentation decisions. (ie. Fragment to the path
mtu if it is available).
TCP connections by using the MTU of the interface. Also added
a knob, mss_ifmtu, to force all connections to use the MTU of
the interface to calculate the advertised MSS.
meeting of IETF #41 by Amy Hughes <ahughes@isi.edu>, and in an upcoming
internet draft from Hughes, Touch, and Heidemann.
CWM eliminates line-rate bursts after idle periods by counting pending
(unacknowledged) packets and limiting the congestion window to the
initial congestion window plus the pending packet count. This has the
effect of allowing us to use the window as long as we continue to transmit,
but as soon as we stop transmitting, we go back to a slow-start (also known
as `use it or lose it').
This is not enabled by default. You can enable this behavior by patching
the "tcp_cwm" global (set it to non-zero) or by building a kernel with the
TCP_CWM option.
to ACK immediately any packet that arrived with PSH set. This breaks
delayed ACKs in a few specific common cases that delayed ACKs were
supposed to help, and ends up not making much (if any) difference in
the case where where this ACK-on-PSH change was supposed to help.
Per discussion with several members of the TCPIMPL and TCPSAT IETF
working groups.
code, as clarified in the TCPIMPL WG meeting at IETF #41: If the SYN
(active open) or SYN,ACK (passive open) was retransmitted, the initial
congestion window for the first slow start of that connection must be
one segment.
RTO estimation changes. Under some circumstances it would return a value
of 0, while the old Van Jacobson RTO code would return a minimum of 3.
This would result in 12 retransmissions, each 1 second apart.
This takes care of those instances, and ensures that t_rttmin is
used everywhere as a lower bound.
change pfil_add_hook to put output filters at the tail of the queue,
while continuing to place input filters at the head of the queue. update
the two users of these functions, and document these changes.
fixes PR#4593.
in the packet. This fixes a bug that was resulting in extra packets
in retransmissions (the second packet would be 12 bytes long,
reflecting the RFC1323 timestamp option size).
thorpej