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    sctp: Implement quick failover draft from tsvwg · 5aa93bcf
    Neil Horman authored
    I've seen several attempts recently made to do quick failover of sctp transports
    by reducing various retransmit timers and counters.  While its possible to
    implement a faster failover on multihomed sctp associations, its not
    particularly robust, in that it can lead to unneeded retransmits, as well as
    false connection failures due to intermittent latency on a network.
    
    Instead, lets implement the new ietf quick failover draft found here:
    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05
    
    
    
    This will let the sctp stack identify transports that have had a small number of
    errors, and avoid using them quickly until their reliability can be
    re-established.  I've tested this out on two virt guests connected via multiple
    isolated virt networks and believe its in compliance with the above draft and
    works well.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
    CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
    CC: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
    CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    CC: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
    CC: joe@perches.com
    Acked-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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