[23417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Wed Mar 17 17:55:40 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:01:13 -0800
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.990312194532.20454I-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
At 07:52 PM 3/12/99 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
>We're planning on also offering an FTL version where the return packets
>will arrive before the outgoing packets have left. But we still have some
>problems to work out with RTT before we can do this.
To improve speed in processing, let the response packets tell the sender
what the CRC's for the outbound packets were, so the sender doesn't need to
calculate them. :)