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Re: TCP timeout



>
> From:  ihor v strutynskyj cis stnt <[email protected]>
> To:    [email protected]
> Subject: TCP timeout
> Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:55:30 EST
>
> One question to ns developers.
> Why TCP agent reschedules new retransmit timer using
> rtt_timeout() upon receiving ACK and not updating
> the timer using actual sending timestamp value of 
> the packet for which it expects the ACK? 
> [like it is done in real tcp code]
> Was the complexity main concideration?
> Thank you.
> Ihor. 
> 
> 

If I understand your comment correctly, this is changed in the
forthcoming release to do as you are asking.

- K