use strict;
use warnings;
+use My::Web;
+
our @ListItem=(
- "name"=>"Linux Kernel Patch for Maximal Round-trip-time",
+ "name"=>"tcp_rto",
+ "platform"=>"unixuser",
"priority"=>7,
"download-Linux kernel 2.2.17 patch"=>"linux-2.2.17-tcp_rto-1.diff",
"download-Linux kernel 2.4.16 patch"=>"linux-2.4.16-tcp_rto-1.diff",
- "summary"=>"Network workaround",
+ "summary"=>"Linux kernel maximal TCP round-trip-time patch",
"license"=>"GPL",
- "maintenance"=>"finished",
+ "maintenance"=>"ready",
"language"=>"C patch",
- "description"=>""
- .'<p>This patch can solve your problems if you have network connection dropping too much'
- .' packets. In standard case the Linux kernel will correctly increase our round-trip-time'
- .' of connection slowing the transfer rate up to the unusable state.</p>'
- .' <p>After applying this patch you can set your maximal round-trip-time in file'
- .' "<b>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rto_max</b>", it is expressed in <tt>Hz</tt>'
- .' units (<tt>100-per-second</tt> on <i>x86</i> platform). You may need also to enlarge'
- .' your maximal retry count in "<b>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2</b>",'
- .' otherwise <u>your</u> machine will reject the connection as it will have to retry'
- .' the packets more than in sane states.</p>'
- .' <p><font color="red">Please use this feature very carefully! You are violating'
- .' <tt>RFC</tt> standards and you can get your network administrators to be very angry!</font></p>'
+ "description"=><<"HERE",
+<p>This patch can solve your problems if you have network connection dropping too much
+packets. In standard case the Linux kernel will correctly increase our round-trip-time
+of connection slowing the transfer rate up to the unusable state.</p>
+<p>After applying this patch you can set your maximal round-trip-time in file
+"<b>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rto_max</b>", it is expressed in <tt>Hz</tt>
+units (<tt>100-per-second</tt> on <i>x86</i> platform). You may need also to enlarge
+your maximal retry count in "<b>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2</b>",
+otherwise <u>your</u> machine will reject the connection as it will have to retry
+the packets more than in sane states.</p>
+<p><font color="red">Please use this feature very carefully! You are violating
+<tt>RFC</tt> standards and you can get your network administrators to be very angry!</font></p>
+HERE
);
1;