Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 1998 15:01:29 +0100 (BST) |
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> suggested improvements. One in particular is increasing the initial > congestion window > from 1 packet to 2 or more. I beleive this will > greatly help things.
There was a certain amount of fighting for and against this but the studies do show fairly clearly that except for already extremely overloaded pipes it is a definite win, and the WG accepted it.
> Instead of abandoning exponential backoff, Linux might consider increasing > the initial congestion window in accordance with the latest drafts from the > tcp-impl working group.
This would be a good thing to do anyway. At least as a tunable
> Other wild options: > o) T/TCP - Unfortunately, this never caught on, but > might have been quite a good fit for HTTP. > (See Stevens TCP/IP illustrated vol 3 )
Charles Hannum pretty much buried the original T/TCP from its security viewpoint. The rather interesting beginnings of the "how do we rewrite T/TCP" discussion disappeared off tcp-impl in the direction of end2end very recently too.
Alan
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