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From: cjohnson@somni.wpd.sgi.com (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: IP Bandwidth limits (was Re: TCP window size restriction)
Summary: 4Gig per MPL
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Date: 10 Jan 91 23:17:18 GMT
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	Well, there is a data rate limit for TCP/IP,
	but it isn't window size dependent.  The
	sixteen bit IP id field and the 16 bit max
	packet length limit a particular connection
	to 4GB/255 seconds or about 16MB/sec.

					cj*