From 850350a57ef1444e2085529e0d7ee439a3d5150c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xin Long Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:12:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] net: change tcp_syn_retries documentation Documentation should be kept consistent with the code: static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT; #define MAX_TCP_SYNCNT 127 Signed-off-by: Xin Long Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ceb44a095a27b..73b36d7c7b0d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ tcp_fastopen - INTEGER tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt - will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value + will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. -- 2.39.5