Re: New network monitoring proc file.

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

   From: Federico David Sacerdoti <fds@cs.ucsd.edu>
   Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:48:26 -0800

   I would like to submit a patch that adds a /proc file to the kernel which 
   monitors the health of active TCP connections. It does this by counting 
   the number of duplicate ACKs sent out, among other things.
   
   I have a website detailing the exact metrics used and why I choose them:  		
   http://heron.ucsd.edu/tcphealth/
   
I would rather that you add this to the tcp_diag facility in
2.4.x instead of creating yet another proc file.  tcp_diag is
designed perfectly for fetching the kind of information your
TCP health monitor is providing.

This is irregardless of whether your selection of health metrics is
sound or not, I have not looked into this part at all.  But it will
have to be discussed before we think about adding the changes.