Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:46:43 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: TCP Stalls. |
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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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