Subject: Re: Appropriate byte counting, revisited.
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/13/2006 07:47:41
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:33:12AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> >>Now, seriously, I asked Kentaro to change the sysctl variable name to
> >>simply "abc".
> >
> >abc.aggressive, maybe?
> >the current description ("Enable RFC3465 Appropriate Byte Counting")
> >in the patch is not quite right.
> 
> Yes, I can see that. I think we should have:
> net.inet.tcp.abc=1
> net.inet.tcp.abc.agressive=0

I think that "abc" is too obtuse, although "rfc3465" is even less user friendly.
What is the variable in the code called - it ought to have (much the) same
name.

Also I'm not sure it is a good idea (valid ?) to have both "net.inet.tcp.abc"
and "net.inet.tcp.abc.agressive".

	David

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