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From: van@EE.LBL.GOV (Van Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TELNET slow through bridge.
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Date: 2 Apr 91 20:45:26 GMT
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> One difficult tradeoff when deciding which packet to drop is
> which end of the TCP window to start from.  Most VJ TCPs seem to
> react badly when you drop the more recent packets first, so
> since v2.04 we drop the older ones.

James,

Could you elaborate on this a bit?  If something's broken, I'd
like to fix it.

 - Van