iproute2 doesn't handle rto_min suffix settings correctly

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • iproute2 seems to mishandle the value of the rto_min setting when the setting is suffixed by any measurement units, in our very case by 'ms'. It looks like the routing code expects millisecs buts gets jiffies - so there is a 6 orders of magnitude mismatch leading to unexpected behaviour. In our case instead of the wanted 1ms rto_min the code tried to set 1000 secs (!) and as the possible maximum is 120 secs rto_min was set to 2 mins.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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