[65064] in Cypherpunks
Re: Imminent Death of the Internet, GIF at 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Sep 9 20:39:04 1996
To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Sep 1996 17:58:57 EDT."
<Pine.SUN.3.91.960909175135.23624A-100000@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 18:03:00 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Simon Spero writes:
> Remember, though - TCPs initial estimate of the congestion window is
> never less than one packet, large numbers of opening connections can
> still (I think) lead to congestion collapse. It can defnitely get close
> to it.
Sure. TCP, especially without SACK but even with such schemes, more or
less requires an average of no less than one packet per RTT. However,
the other half of what I said is that bandwidth *is* rising.
Perry
