Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:07:04 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks |
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> Congestion control can also persist across connections, web servers could > have congestion 'buckets' that track the amount of congestion to various
The point is that you can do the same with TCP.
> subnets (as calculated from RTTs and dropped packets). Web requests could > be sent as small packets
No. To prevent wasting network bandwidth by packet headers, you should use the largest packets you can, i.e. MSS = MTU.
> which routers can be programmed not to drop except as a 'last' resort (below > telnet and ssh, etc)..
Nonsense. HTTP should _not_ be preferred over other well-behaving protocols.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Diplomacy is an art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock."
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