[15159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Kastenholz)
Mon Feb 9 10:58:40 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:09:56 -0500
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Frank Kastenholz <kasten@argon.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802080550.VAA24464@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
At 09:50 PM 2/7/98 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>> There is, however, the spectre of there being so many SYNs
>> flying around that they alone might cause congestion
>> collapse. I dunno if I should be frightened of that or
>> not, but I am not one of your origin server friends. --:)
>
>i'm not worried about the syn's so much as i am worried about the lack of
>interstream resource planning. in all of the popular desktop stacks, a new
>tcp stream does its own slow start...
This isn't a desktop stack issue
this is a server stack issue. even though
the d.t. opens the connections,
the server is the one sending all the
data and the server is the one doing all
the slowstart, ca/c, etc, etc.
