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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dccp.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/dccp/Kconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig | 13 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt index fdc93beec057..ffb9ca937d65 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt @@ -14,8 +14,15 @@ Introduction ============ Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is an unreliable, connection -based protocol designed to solve issues present in UDP and TCP particularly -for real time and multimedia traffic. +oriented protocol designed to solve issues present in UDP and TCP, particularly +for real-time and multimedia (streaming) traffic. +It divides into a base protocol (RFC 4340) and plugable congestion control +modules called CCIDs. Like plugable TCP congestion control, at least one CCID +needs to be enabled in order for the protocol to function properly. In the Linux +implementation, this is the TCP-like CCID2 (RFC 4341). Additional CCIDs, such as +the TCP-friendly CCID3 (RFC 4342), are optional. +For a brief introduction to CCIDs and suggestions for choosing a CCID to match +given applications, see section 10 of RFC 4340. It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs). diff --git a/net/dccp/Kconfig b/net/dccp/Kconfig index 0549e4719b13..7aa2a7acc7ec 100644 --- a/net/dccp/Kconfig +++ b/net/dccp/Kconfig @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ menuconfig IP_DCCP tristate "The DCCP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL + select IP_DCCP_CCID2 ---help--- Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (RFC 4340) diff --git a/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig b/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig index 80f469887691..f37af17556ba 100644 --- a/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig +++ b/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig @@ -20,18 +20,9 @@ config IP_DCCP_CCID2 to the user. For example, a hypothetical application that transferred files over DCCP, using application-level retransmissions for lost packets, would prefer CCID 2 to CCID 3. On-line games may - also prefer CCID 2. + also prefer CCID 2. See RFC 4341 for further details. - CCID 2 is further described in RFC 4341, - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4341.txt - - This text was extracted from RFC 4340 (sec. 10.1), - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4340.txt - - To compile this CCID as a module, choose M here: the module will be - called dccp_ccid2. - - If in doubt, say M. + CCID2 is the default CCID used by DCCP. config IP_DCCP_CCID2_DEBUG bool "CCID2 debugging messages" |