Re: TCP over GEO < 512kbps

From: Kacheong Poon ([email protected])
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 20:24:35 EST

> The minimum of BSD's RTO is actually 2 clock ticks. This means the RTO can
> lie anywhere between 500-1000ms.

Yes, that is what the code intends to do. But refer to Brakmo and Peterson's
CCR paper about this problem. They pointed out in practise, BSD's RTO is
usually 3 clock ticks, which translates to 1s to 1.5s. The URL is
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/ccr/archive/1995/oct95/ccr-9510-brakmo.html

                                                        K. Poon.
                                                        [email protected]

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