TCP Connection Retry

TCP Connection Retry is a feature that enables the client to retry a connection attempt after it failed, instead of directly dropping the source. This is an enhancement to bring the balance back with the dead source list. This way only clients land on deadsource list that are really no longer reachable.

Critisism

This feature places a higher load on nodes that already are difficult to reach.

Origin

This feature was developed by xman for Xtreme