At 09:21 PM 1/21/99 , Phil Karn wrote:
>>What should actually be done is that whenever the Rexmt timer gets
>>re-started with the RTO the "age" of the oldest byte should be substracted.
>
>Isn't this similar to the old practice of having a separate RTO timer
>for each segment? If so, I think there are some studies that may be
>helpful.
Yes, it is exactly the same thing except you only need _one_ timer and have
to remember the age of all bytes which have not yet been acked; which TCP
does anyway when using timestamps.
///Reiner
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