[40690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wanted: wireless magic tricks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon 'tex' Boone)
Thu Aug 16 14:15:50 2001
To: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
Cc: Mark Allman <mallman@grc.nasa.gov>,
"Young, Jason" <Jason.Young@anheuser-busch.com>,
"'Cerqua, Toby'" <toby@platinumsystems.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010816140157.L9426@ns1.arch.bellsouth.net> (Christian
Kuhtz's message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:01:57 -0400")
From: Jon 'tex' Boone <tex@delamancha.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:11:28 -0400
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Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> writes:
>> My main point was that there is nothing wrong with the TCP
>> *protocol* that makes it under-perform at large delay*bandwidth
>> products. The implementations are not necessarily up to the job in
>> some cases, but the protocol is sound.
>
> FWIW, I wasn't bashing TCP, I was reporting experience data.
You can find details of tuning TCP for different operating systems
courtesy of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at:
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html
-tex
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