From edcd017d679900f9c12c85fe96e99f702d579885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeffrey Hsu Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:44:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the net.inet.tcp.rfc3042 sysctl variable. --- share/man/man4/tcp.4 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/share/man/man4/tcp.4 b/share/man/man4/tcp.4 index 409d10d5a71..9e3ff83cfb8 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/tcp.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/tcp.4 @@ -363,6 +363,10 @@ trying values of can lead to upwards of a 20% underutilization of the link as well as reducing the algorithm's ability to adapt to changing situations and should only be done as a last resort. +.It tcp.rfc3042 +Enable the Limited Transmit algorithm as described in RFC 3042. It +helps avoid timeouts on lossy links. This is a standards track RFC +and is off by default. .El .Sh ERRORS A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned: