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tcp: Rack might retransmit forever.

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tcp: Rack might retransmit forever.

If we get a Sacked peer with an MTU change we can retransmit forever if the
last bytes are sacked and the client goes away (think power off). Then we
never see the end condition and continually retransmit.

Reviewed by: Michael Tuexen
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32671

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Provenance
rrsAuthored on Oct 29 2021, 9:37 PM
Reviewer
tuexen
Differential Revision
D32671: tcp: Rack might retransmit forever.
Parents
rG26f76aea2d27: timecounter: Load the currently selected tc once in tc_windup()
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