Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency) | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 22:25:31 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm curious about this effect so I've been trying to find information > on this and while I can find lots of information on the Ethernet > capture effect there doesn't seem to be anything on the TCP capture > effect. Could someone point me at an explanation of this effect?
it is exactly the same thing but the backoffs are the TCP level backoffs and the collisions are between TCP streams. There are statistical approaches to fairness used in routers (a local capture effect annoyance to you is rather bad news on backbones).
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