Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:45:22 -0700 | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | | Subject | Re: TCP Stalls. |
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I don't think any TCP stack is going to behave very well at all when every 4th packet is dropped. This prevents TCP from gaining any momentum, and prevents completely any possibility to perform fast retransmit because there are not enough packets in flight. So you will eat the full retransmit timeout for recovery every time, and this timeout will increase more and more as the connection drags on.
I'm not debugging based upon this, it cannot legitimately demonstrate any bug.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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