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Re: MTU of the Internet?
From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson () greendragon com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 98 19:19:30 GMT
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com> By loading the images in parallel over multiple TCP connections, you also totally screw the TCP congestion avoidance mechanisms, and hurt the net as a whole, especially given how prevalent HTTP is these days. Unfortunately, as has been seen here, very few people working with the net these days actually understand the details of things the net depends on, and TCP congestion avoidance is one of them.
Thank you, Perry! Hey, why bother with that congestion control stuff? It just makes the users complain about slowness.... Just spew the packets as fast as you can, like RealXXX, and screw everybody else. The sooner Fair Queuing is installed (it has been in many smaller vendors' products for 5-6 years, why has Cisco taken so long?), with RED (again, this is several years old), the sooner the blackguards can be bumped out the way of well-behaved applications. This is supposedly an operations list. So, everyone, when are you configuring it in _YOUR_ Cisco? WSimpson () UMich edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
Current thread:
- Re: MTU of the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Paul A Vixie (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Frank Kastenholz (Feb 09)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Frank Kastenholz (Feb 09)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? William Allen Simpson (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Steven L. Johnson (Feb 09)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Paul A Vixie (Feb 08)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jay R. Ashworth (Feb 08)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? John Hawkinson (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Charles Sprickman (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Mr. Dana Hudes (Feb 10)