Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Networking stalls: More details | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:20:45 -0400 | From | "Eric Schenk" <> |
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Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu> writes: >It melts down if all machines retransmit quickly. Until Linux is >on every desktop, you can cheat a bit for better performance. >I know a place where you could get an advantage if you sent every >single packet twice. That would be evil of course, and no vendor >would even think of doing such a thing to improve performance. :-/
Or, for example, retransmitting ACK packets twice? No, no major vendor would ever do that... :->
-- eric
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