[15144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Gaudet)
Sun Feb 8 23:24:31 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 00:20:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-nanog@arctic.org>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980206203946.43691@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Browsers, and other software which open multiple connections should
> temper their connection counts based on the size of the perceived pipe;
> ie: some connect-level heuristics to do proper PMTUD and _make the
> answer available to applications_ would probably be useful.
How about the browsers just implement HTTP/1.1 and use pipelined
persistant connections? Why invent some new fangled connection management
crud when there's a much better way to utilize the pipe. See
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html> for example.
Just imagine how well that would work if they were talking to a local
proxy.
Dean
