Dig out the retransmit timer management in FreeBSD 8.X Stable. How does it manage the timer? Use a compact table to compare it with that of Linux 2.6. Hint: You can begin the exercise by reading and...

Dig out the retransmit timer management in FreeBSD 8.X Stable. How does it manage the timer? Use a compact table to compare it with that of Linux 2.6. Hint: You can begin the exercise by reading and tracking the calling path of the function tcp_ timer_rexmt() in netinet/tcp_timer.c of FreeBSD and tcp_retransmit_timer() in net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c of Linux.