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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 12-jul-2007, at 22:27, Philip Lavine wrote: > > >I just don't understand how if there is 1 segment that gets lost > >how this could translate to such a catastrophic long period of slow- > >start. How can I minimize the impact of the inevitable segment > >loss/out of order over a WAN. Is QoS the only option? > > Also note that minimal amounts of cell loss on ATM create huge > amounts of packet loss at the IP layer. from the phrases used ('catastrophic') my feeling is that perhaps Philip isnt un derstanding that on a high speed TCP transfer a single missing bit of data can c ause the whole thing to stop and restart transmission from slow Steve
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