Re: TCP retransmission : how to detect from an application ?

[patrick mcmanus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 08:57, Paul Rolland wrote:
> corrected by the kernel (hell, TCP is reliable, isn't it :-), but I'd like
> to know if an application can detect this (well, I don't want to be notified
> of a packet loss once detected, but I'd like to get some stats before
> closing
> the connection).

#include <linux/tcp.h>

struct tcp_info info;

getsockopt (... TCP_INFO ... &info ...);

and you get all of this (you'll have to see net/ipv4/tcp.c to see how it
all gets filled in.. I'm not aware of better documentation than that):

struct tcp_info
{
    __u8    tcpi_state;
    __u8    tcpi_ca_state;
    __u8    tcpi_retransmits;
    __u8    tcpi_probes;
    __u8    tcpi_backoff;
    __u8    tcpi_options;
    __u8    tcpi_snd_wscale : 4, tcpi_rcv_wscale : 4;

    __u32   tcpi_rto;
    __u32   tcpi_ato;
    __u32   tcpi_snd_mss;
    __u32   tcpi_rcv_mss;

    __u32   tcpi_unacked;
    __u32   tcpi_sacked;
    __u32   tcpi_lost;
    __u32   tcpi_retrans;
    __u32   tcpi_fackets;

    /* Times. */
    __u32   tcpi_last_data_sent;
    __u32   tcpi_last_ack_sent;     /* Not remembered, sorry. */
    __u32   tcpi_last_data_recv;
    __u32   tcpi_last_ack_recv;

    /* Metrics. */
    __u32   tcpi_pmtu;
    __u32   tcpi_rcv_ssthresh;
    __u32   tcpi_rtt;
    __u32   tcpi_rttvar;
    __u32   tcpi_snd_ssthresh;
    __u32   tcpi_snd_cwnd;
    __u32   tcpi_advmss;
    __u32   tcpi_reordering;
};