>> Ah, but the good (?) news is that Eric's first bullet above comes
into
>> play and renders large windows useless for most Web traffic
>> anyway. Our recent measurements show that the vast majority of Web
>> connections are too short to benefit from window scaling and big
>> socket buffers, regardless of the path.
Sure, *now* that's the case. But should we really be basing our
recommendations for future of TCP on the behavior of HTTP/1.0? HTTP 1.1
exists and is being deployed widely as we speak. If it works as
designed (and the experimental numbers which have been published are
correct), it should radically change the above.
That's a very elaborate way of asking: isn't your point moot? <grin>
--Tim Farley
XcelleNet, Inc.
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