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Re: UUNET Routing issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Oct 4 16:54:17 2002

To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:28:01 +0300."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 16:53:26 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:28:01 +0300, Petri Helenius said:

> You usually end up with 64k window with modern systems anyway. Hardly
> anything uses window scaling bits actively. Obviously by dropping select packets
> you can keep the window at a more moderate size. Doing this effectively would
> require the box to regocnize flows which is not feasible at high speeds.
> (unless you're caspian sales person :-)

OK. I'll bite - is it feasible if you're a caspian engineer? ;)

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