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Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:10:11 +0000

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Joe Maimon wrote:

TCP needs drops to manage to the right speed.

This is whats bad. TCP should be slightly more intelligent and start
considering rtt jitter as its primary source of congestion information.

TCP Vegas did this but sadly it never became popular.
(It doesn't compete well with Reno.)

Tony.
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