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Re: [ns] window probing in ns



On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, gmc50 wrote:

> Since ns-2 does not support dynamic advertised window, I suppose that it
> does not support zero window probe. Is this assumption correct?  (that
> is, if the advertised window (window_) = 0, does ns-2 support sender
> timer freezing and sending probe packets with exponential backoff (RFC
> 1122) to probe for a new advertised window?)

if you connect a TCP source to a lossmonitor instead of a TCPSink,
you'll see the exponential backoff/probe behaviour.

L.

> If ns-2 does not support such sender action, is there any practical way
> to implement this action or has anybody done this before?

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