Re: Excessive TCP retransmits over lossless, high latency link

From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 13:12:46 EST


Hello!

> packet loss and never has a chance to find out about the longer RTT, because
> that only works with new ACKs.

Karn algo calculates right rtt after log(rtt/3sec) retransmits.
It is not so big number. In this case, it is 1 in fact. The only effect
of irtt setting is avoiding one retransmission.

Alexey
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