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SubjectRe: TCP Stall
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:

>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Good news, this patch, posted here earlier today, solves most of the
> > TCP Stall problem:
>
> Kind of funny its such a small one, too.. I see this is a 2.1 patch only.
> Does 2.0 have this problem?
>

I don't know about 2.0.

> [..]
> > Stall at pk:263 tot:382594 time:860460048.251453 2947 bps
>
> These are pretty good numbers. You said this is over 28.8k. Is that PPP?
> Can you really expect to get these kind of numbers with the PPP overhead?
> I understand 28.8 isn't strickly 2,800 bytes/sec, but I figured with the
> PPP overhead not to get anything more than like 2.6 or so... Thats
> certainly all I have ever gotten, even when I can connect at 28.8.
>
> Only thing I can think of is its a text file, with some good compression..
> Is a text transfer an accurate measurement, though?
>

It's just the "barber-pole" from the character generator. I'm sure ".gz"
files will not do this well. It's over my PPP Link.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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