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SubjectRe: TCP Stalls.
What about an adaptation of AX.25?  It handles loaded radio frequencies
and "line quality" issues rather well I think.


On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> The problem with TCP over PPP links where you have noise and occasional
> -non traffic load related- loss is that TCP isn't designed to cope with
> that. It was designed for networks where packets get lost due to
> collisions under high load or where heavily loaded routers drop packets
> that they don't have time to process. Unfortunately when you lose a
> packet in TCP the fundamental model is that "oh, the link must be
> congested, I'll slow down to help it out." Time consuming modem
> renegotiations on semi-good phone lines don't help this problem any..
>
> Design a protocol that can deal with both load related packet loss and
> point-to-point line quality related packet loss over a single link and
> the world will love you forever.


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