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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Van Jacobson's improved TCP code
Message-ID: <25160@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 89 03:28:54 GMT
References: <8904070340.AA05052@sapphire.oce.orst.edu>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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pvo1478@OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul V. O'Neill) writes:
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| The Van Jacobson stuff on ucbarpa.berkeley.edu has improvements for dealing
| with congested networks.  (Slow-start, re-transmission timer, etc.) If you're 
| not on the Internet, you probably don't have congested connections and 
| don't need it....
+---------------

Well, the Internet isn't the only congested net in the world... ;-}
Anybody who has a 9600 or 56k link between two campuses/buildings of
Ethernets has probably seen congestion burps. And I've seen cases when
the new code would work with badly designed old Ethernet controllers
(need I name names? except to say they're for really small hosts) when
nothing else would. So it's good to have, regardless.


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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