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Re: Buffers and TCPWindowsize...WAS: PTP latency


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 00:49:45 -0400


On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 21:24:11 PDT, Christopher Wolff <chris () bblabs com>  said:
I understand the role that windowing plays in tcp/ip, I guess what I'm wondering is how that packet could get 
'squeezed' as it passes through a WAN.

Is it possible that you need RFC1323 extensions to get the expected throughput
due to delay-bandwidth product, but one end or the other isn't doing 1323?

/Valdis


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