[112765] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Mar 17 15:10:26 2009
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:10:11 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
In-Reply-To: <49BFD414.3030209@ttec.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Joe Maimon wrote:
>
> > TCP needs drops to manage to the right speed.
>
> This is whats bad. TCP should be slightly more intelligent and start
> considering rtt jitter as its primary source of congestion information.
TCP Vegas did this but sadly it never became popular.
(It doesn't compete well with Reno.)
Tony.
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