[6963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Questions about Internet Packet Losses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Tue Jan 14 13:26:42 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:59:44 GMT."
<199701140859.IAA01736@diamond.xara.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:20:51 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> One of the nice things about proxy servers and web caches is
> they mask end user host stack inadequacy, and thus (I allege)
> tend to increase MTUs and encourage better network utilization
> (in additional to the normal benefits of caching).
Proxy servers can also maintain persistent long/medium term HTTP 1.1
connections that the clients are too dumb to maintain themselves, thus
getting streaming without requiring client upgrades.
