[2968] in linux-net channel archive
Re: More on slow TCP in the pre-2.0 kernels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Schenk)
Wed May 22 17:01:14 1996
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 1996 08:16:54 EDT."
<199605171216.NAA26708@snowcrash.cymru.net>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 01:10:54 -0400
From: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net> writes:
>> congestion window between 1 and 2, and when fast retransmit gets triggered
>> we will inject a long sequence of packets into the network which will all
>> be lost. This just generally results in very slow behavior under these
>
>What would happen if we didnt do fast retransmit with a congestion window
>under 3 frames. At that point fast retransmit isnt much of a win anyway ?
Now why didn't I think of that. I can't see any reason we can't do this.
I'll test it out to be sure, and if I don't spot a problem submit a patch
for this.
-- eric
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