terminating a TCP connection.
If a TCP packet must be retransmitted and the data length has changed in the
retransmitted packet, due to the internal workings of TCP, typically when ACK
packets are lost, then there is a 30% chance that the logic in GetDeltaSeqOut()
will find the correct length, which is the last length received.
This can be explained as follows:
If a "227 Entering Passive Mode" packet must be retransmittet and the length
changes from 51 to 50 bytes, for example, then we have three cases for the
list scan in GetDeltaSeqOut(), depending on how many prior packets were
received modulus N_LINK_TCP_DATA=3:
case 1: index 0: original packet 51
index 1: retransmitted packet 50
index 2: not relevant
case 2: index 0: not relevant
index 1: original packet 51
index 2: retransmitted packet 50
case 3: index 0: retransmitted packet 50
index 1: not relevant
index 2: original packet 51
This patch simply changes the searching order for TCP packets, always starting
at the last received packet instead of any received packet, in
GetDeltaAckIn() and GetDeltaSeqOut().
Else no functional changes.
Discussed with: rscheff@
Submitted by: Andreas Longwitz <longwitz@incore.de>
PR: 230755
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies // NVIDIA Networking
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