Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ucbvax!tcp-ip From: tcp-ip@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.tcp-ip Subject: Interactive traffic punishment via MILNET? Message-ID: <9302@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 18:14:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9302 Posted: Wed Jul 24 18:14:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 02:12:45 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 21 From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow For the last few months we have noticed a dreadful condition that seems to strike with a good deal of regularity when using a MILNET TAC to connect to an ARPANET Host. The same thing also happens when using a local network host gatwayed into the ARPANET which in turn ends up at a MILNET TAC. Specifically, this has to do with interactive "links" where two users are TALKing to one another and there are single character packets in both directions. The symptom is that the person at the TAC's output goes into molasses mode where they receive a character from the host once every second or so. This happens on two different operating systems (Tenex and TOPS-20), and as i said with directly connected ARPANET hosts as well as those behind a local network gateway. Any ideas was is exacerbating this situation? Anyone else out there experienced it? g