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Re: [pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Jun 29 07:29:34 2011
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:28:45 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 29/06/2011 12:18, Tony Finch wrote:
> Also TCP cannot measure the available bandwidth without packet loss.
?
TCP stacks will figure out available bandwidth just fine by measuring
return acks - there's no need to drop any packets.
Nick
