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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 923Mbits/s across the ocean
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[email protected]> > This is the part about TCP that I've never understood: why does it > send large numbers of packets back-to-back? This is almost never a > good idea. Because until you congest the network to the point of dropping packets, a host has no idea how much bw is actually available. Exponential rate growith finds this value very quickly. > Hm, I don't see this happening to a usable degree as TCP has no > concept of records. You really want to use fixed size chunks of > information here rather than pretending everything's a stream. A record-oriented, reliable transport would make many protocols much easier to implement. Too bad SCTP hasn't seen wider use. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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