On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:11:35PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > > ...We'll be using current MTU sized packets except for the probe until > the probe has succeeded, only from that point onward will the new packets > will be sent with the larger MTU. If the probe succeeds, all reservations > we made here are no longer meaningful or necessary anyway. The point is to > detect failure by having fast recovery triggered by the current MTU sized > packets that follow the probe, that's because we "know" that those smaller > packets are not going to be dropped by the path even though an oversize > probe would be.
Thanks for the explanation! I'll apply both patches to net-2.6. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
