Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:46:17 +0100 (BST)


> Consider a 2-minute delay to be a complete failure, because it is.
> Anything more than a few seconds is not useful. One reasonable (?)
> hack would be to limit that delay to not more than double the
> longest recorded round trip. Another would be a simple 2-second
> upper bound. Obviously these ideas are gross and broken, just
> like the Internet itself. Think "less broken", because a 2-minute
> delay is already more broken than I care to contemplate. Could you
> imagine using an editor with 2-minute delays? Spend a day hacking
> the kernel with an artificial 2-minute delay added. Ouch.

2 minute delays are fine in bulk traffic. You whole thinking is broken
however.

If n users * x packets with 2 second rtt simply dont fit down the pipe in
question you lose.

Chunks of the net are congested. That congestion however you will note doesnt
cause a congestion explosion

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