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SubjectRe: TCP rto estimation patch
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:06:39PM -0700, David Stevens wrote:
> I believe "2" and "3" are the scale factors for the fixed-point
> representation
> of the data, not the "alpha" and "beta" I remember from the estimator
> paper.
>

The math is done with bit shifts instead of floating point multiplications.
It's the same thing though. The 2 means beta of 1/4 and the 3 means alpha
of 1/8.

-Wes
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