Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 10:37:16 EST

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David S. Miller wrote:
> TCP can only send into a pipe as fast as it can see the
> ACKs coming back. That is how TCP clocks its sending rate,
> and latency thus affects that.

Wouldn't you just need larger windows? The problem is latency, not
bandwidth.

Chris

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