Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-tcpsat-stand-mech-00.txt

From: IETF ([email protected])
Date: Tue Oct 07 1997 - 14:45:21 EDT


Bora> I don't know how one can implement this without a major tweak at the
Bora> upper layers or letting network drivers snoop into
Bora> device drivers but it would certainly be nice.

Setting a congestion bit in TCP vs. a corruption bit?

>From a pure engineering perspective, please explain how this would be
accomplished. On the surface, it seems like a major divergence
from the TCP philosophy to attempt to have end-to-end systems
distinguish between dropped packets due to congestion (buffer overflow)
and corruption (noise).

Is there a credible IETF paper on this?

Tim



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