[6942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Questions about Internet Packet Losses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Jan 14 01:52:32 1997
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:50:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
cc: Bob Metcalfe <metcalfe@infoworld.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5612.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> > On Web throughput, since so many TCP connections are involved?
>
> The Web is actually a major source of the problem. It was not very well
> designed, protocol-wise. It causes rapid transient congestion.
>
> > How big a problem is HTTP's opening of so many TCP connections?
>
> It is a terrible problem. There is no time for the congestion and round
> trip estimation algorithms to kick in, as each connection is so short.
>
> But, HTTP is being fixed.
Assuming HTTP traffic is 50%-60% of data traffic on the Internet, how much
of a win will we get once streaming HTTP comes along?
Hank Nussbacher
