[PATCH] net: Fix broken link to cubic-paper.pdf

Osama Albahrani posted 1 patch 1 month, 2 weeks ago
net/ipv4/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
[PATCH] net: Fix broken link to cubic-paper.pdf
Posted by Osama Albahrani 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Use first Wayback Machine snapshot

Signed-off-by: Osama Albahrani <osalbahr@gmail.com>
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 net/ipv4/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 12850a277251..7f796c8cb765 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
 	help
 	  This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
 	  among other techniques.
-	  See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
+	  See https://web.archive.org/web/20060103185400/http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
 
 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
 	tristate "TCP Westwood+"
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Re: [PATCH] net: Fix broken link to cubic-paper.pdf
Posted by Jakub Kicinski 1 month, 2 weeks ago
On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:39:45 +0300 Osama Albahrani wrote:
> Use first Wayback Machine snapshot

Maybe replace it with a title + author?
The links keep getting stale, and for academic papers the reference
should be pretty unambiguous.
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